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YouTube may be a mental illness, but it's my preferred mental illness.

If there is one irreplaceable content network, it's youtube. The amount of quality shit you can watch there for free is insane.
Yeah, I was more going for centralisation vs decentralisation but i agree.

What is Lemmy ?

Front man for motorhead,duh.
- this very slightly enraged me...
a mental media

or maybe a social illness...

no its a mental media
A mental illness
hmm i don't know. it sounds similar to lemm.ee.

Team of athletes captioned with: "Bro thinks he's on the team", with the play with the Bluesky over them circled with the others having various federated software logos over them

bluesky is the liberal cousin in a family of commies, also they actually have an active community with it's own vibe.
At least people know the bluesky logo. Wtf is that triforce on the right
- PeerTube (don't duckduckgo "peertube logo" with safe search off)

Unpopular opinion: Bluesky is annoying because if I say anything about queer issues (especially trans ones) I get followed by a bunch of alt-righters and the occasional dude with a kiwifarms avatar or something weird like "we will find you" in their bio. Yeah they're just bots and they're easy enough to block but it's tedious. It's weird how many people nagged me to join and no one even mentioned that.

Yeah, thats not a bluesky problem specifically, this could easily happen to the fediverse, we're just smaller, and better equipped to stop it since its more mature.

Bluesky is just going to turn into twitter in a few years. How does no one see the issue with one company owning a platform?!

You need to have a couple of explicitly anticapitalist thoughts to see the issue with it. So yeah, most won't see the issue with it.
Maybe bluesky might take a bit longer, but I don't see how threads is any better than twitter.

Just a different asshat running the company
- Honestly, threads was only popular because of it being fused with instagram, so you would already have an audience and because it was the simplest alternative at the time.
People aren't thinking that critically. Maybe they need to experience the cycle a couple more times.
While you can critisise its decentralisation, it is still in development. There is an effort (https://freeourfeeds.com/, cory doctorow supports it) to host atproto infrastructure outside of bsky's control.
- it is not still in development decentralisation on bluesky is vapourware it will never exist it's just part of the standard EEE cycle it's marketing they'll say it didn't work out and cancel it the second they become the predominant platform
The issue is size

If it was federated the same problems would arise, see lemmy

There needs to be user caps
If it does, a new alternative will pop up, no biggie

Bluesky isn't much better.

You just need to learn to curate your feed.
- The problem I have with it isn't the feed, it's the ownership.

Remove Bluesky and add Lemmy.

Are you also on lemmy? Cool to find fellow lemmies in the wild!
- I’m on Lemmy right now.
- Posting from Lemmy right now! It's so fucking cool how we can all be on different platforms but still chat it up.

where lemmy

Probably somewhere between mental illness and real social media.

Add bluesky to the list of mental ilnesses

I'm RSS

I miss the days of filling up my RSS feed from different websites. I hate how consolidated the internet became.

you can still use rss, i have a feed going on my phone and it's good
- Yea, but it's not the same making an RSS feed from a social media feed. Websites used to be interesting, they were like the "magazines" or "subreddits" of internet before social media took off.
I mean, rss is really only dead on the consumer side, every website still seems to have it. Twitter is the only big one that got rid of it.
- I'm reading quite a few blogs, a lot of them don't have RSS anymore.

Damn, watching videos is a mental illness now?

youtube is fine as a video host but it's awful as a discovery platform. look what it puts on the front page when you're logged out sometime.
- Never log out, my algorithm is tuned to me quite well. Even get very small creators suggested to me.
  
  Definitely seems to be out of the norm though.
- Youtube shorts: 💀
It gives you the woke virus.
use peertube <3
- To watch what?

Mastodon ain’t any better.

Out of interest, what problems did you have with it?
Why? My experience there has been quite positive.
oh no, germans posting cat photos, the horrors