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(Repost) When do you think the Fediverse would have a leverage? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 9 months ago by andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Here and there we see people earning and losing career over Twitter, Facebook posts, even if illusionary, it makes news.

When would Mastodon, Lemmy posts get enough traction to get into news?

Unlike them, Reddit has zero credibility, but still has many articles about it and internal reddit dramas.

Where would we as a fediverse reach the point ArsTech and others would refer to our post and comments as a proof of something?

We have a wet dream of them all relocating from X-itter to free platforms and self-hosting, but the first breaking point would be if they refer to us like we are real. When and how it would be? I don't know.

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[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It depends. Instances like Mastodo may start having some weight in future but I don't think that Lemmy will loose his 'niche' status anytime soon. Discord have more users as well, but you never hear of him in the news, people know Discord but is still not mainstream.

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago (4 children)

As far as mainstream is concerned. Discord is known as "That platform where moderators groom kids" since that's the only things that ever reach the news

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Discord is really rough. Bot armies, tons of trolls, many disturbed individuals posting gore and trauma dumping on others. I have run a couple discord servers and moderated some more. Its not fun, really. We‘ll see how matrix pans out in the future but so far, the amount of sickos seems to go down.

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Oh I used to moderate a big discord server. I retired when I had to deal with actual god damn child porn being sold there.

Consider me traumatized

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Jeez! Thats top of the line disgusting. I cant say I have seen this level of deranged but only moderating a bunch of youth and a couple adults while your fellow mods are part of the problem gets tiring fast. untreated personality disorders seem very prevalent on discord an I both pity the folks having to live with them and despise the fact others get traumatized by those folks behavior.

[–] Riccosuave@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The moment I realized I never wanted to moderate a Discord server was the first time I heard a Darth Dawkins debate on YouTube.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What is darth dawkins?

[–] Riccosuave@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The single most insufferable person I have ever had the displeasure of hearing communicate verbally in my three decades of life on this planet.

I'm not sure if you're interested in the atheist debate sphere at all, if you are then you should give him a listen. He's a Catholic apologist and presuppositionalist who debates on Discord.

Be warned though, he is fucking awful. If you listen to him debate for more than 30 minutes in one sitting you're liable to suffer psychological trauma. He's that bad, not kidding.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 3 points 9 months ago

Kind of intriguing, ngl. But I‘ll pass. Thanks for the heads up.

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Wow, I didn't know it was "that" fk'd up. Seriously shocking. 😰

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

And leaking government secrets in vc (ahem war thunder)

[–] pelletbucket@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

the only thing I hear about it on the news is the occasional War Thunder leak

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

Discord chats are deeply private (not for the owners), and we are googlable. Where it needs to be something big, like a child abuse case to make some news about Discord, discovered through other means, we have a more open content platform.