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Good analogy, but I would personally target a bigger thing that these have in common: Bloodlust for profit.

Essentially, instead of focusing on letting their communities thrive and empowering them, they focus on nothing more than making a profit, which mostly degrades the experience as an individual

I am not trying to be pessimistic, I am disappointed

Communities that have been built up over the course of years are being broken down due to their owners and/or the platform’s CEOs becoming more greedy over time as they realise their business model couldn’t actually sustain itself. As such, the experience as an individual user suffers compared to even a shorter amount of time, say 5 years ago

Of course, I could be biased, as I have not been around nearly as long on the internet as some others on here have, but there is a clear decline in the platforms themselves which we like to interact on, as they become more and more focused upon generating maximum revenue

After all, whilst one has to remember that whilst there is a lot of independent websites, most internet traffic is spent on just a handful of popular services. It’d be wrong to call my disappointment nothing more as pessimism in an internet where a good part is heading south, considering that even the top search engine, which drives the largest amount of traffic on the entire internet is getting worse by the minute, just to name an example.

TL;DR: I enjoy these smaller, federated communities coming to light more as people begin to see that their favourite places are being robbed of them by corporations which only had the intent of making profit from the very beginning, and calling my dissappointment in the bigger platforms nothing more than pessimism is ignoring the fact that lots of traffic goes to only a few sites.

it is truly devestating to see the state the internet and world is in. At least I know that communities are fighting back in many ways, although what they’re fighting against is powerful, both in real life and the internet.

But hey, that’s why I’m here, I believe in the fact that community projects (The Fediverse in this case) can thrive on their own, without having monetary incentive.

if you’re using the official web interface, it should work fine. Third-party apps are a different story

I’m surprised, because other fediverse platforms already support adding Alt Text and Lemmy doesn’t seem to. (At least not in the UI?)

with embeds, e.g ![](example.com) you can put Alt-Text directly into the [] like: ![alt](example.com) and it should be recognized

XMPP can indeed be used for some other things

For example, Google uses it to this day for Google Cloud Messaging - the push notifications service in Android.

Just the how is something I cannot answer :/

Obsidian isn’t FOSS at all, sadly.

Though, they’re not the data-hungry kind of proprietary, or use some proprietary format. It’s basically just a really fancy markdown editor with plugin support. No telemetry, no accounts, and sync can be self-hosted.

I will gladly continue to use Piped and not have to worry about watch history