dreamLogic

I have mixed feelings about this

So tragic

Not enough people, or not enough participation by current members. Basically not enough activity/liveliness. This will probably solve itself given enough time.

I remember once when this news crew was walking around asking people what class they belong to and how much they make was, the responses were telling. Absolutely everyone said they were "middle class", regardless if they were making $20,000 a year or $200,000 a year.

There's inklings of this kind of thing already here and there, one example: https://goodmenproject.com/

Depends on the products. Soda for example is basically all just carbonated sugar water with different flavors. The consumer thinks they have a choice but it's really all the same. Many Linux distros shouldn't exist, but they do. Same idea carries over into politics here in North America. Choice is nice, but only if it's a real choice.

Lemmy.ml itself is an "instance" of Lemmy, lol. This is just like when people think they need to make an account on Mastadon.social to have a Mastadon account.

I was also curious on what exactly you mean.

It looks like it uses blockchain?

I didn't know you could do this until just now.

I work in retail and we have shoplifters all the time because we are in a shady area. Lots of arrests but some people get away. I have doubts even with the rampant shoplifting the place will ever shut down. I don't see a huge issue about having a community for it. It's not going to enable more successful shoplifting.

What defines "social media sites?" Fediverse is just stuff that implements the Activitypub protocol. Mastodon, Pleroma, Pixelfed, Friendica, Lemmy, Honk, Peertube, and everything else listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse Basically they are all different platforms (not sites) people can run using the random domain names that they do.