Anticompetitive practices shouldn’t be this mainstream and obvious

That’s a really cool idea!

He’s gotta wait for one of his real users to post it to twitter

At payment wait staff will tip the customer. Whoever tipped highest wins bourgeois status for the day.

Agreed but to start with the same benefits as a full time employee would be a start.

It’s gotten worse very recently. Agreed they are usually on top of complaints. Keep in mind Amazon charges third party sellers a ton and passes the fees on to us, so they can afford a refund here and there.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/pamdanziger/2021/02/05/amazons-third-party-marketplace-is-its-cash-cow-not-aws/?sh=908742521c03

Like all companies they’re shifting to shaft the user.

This one’s just a bit of nostalgia from the slavery days for them.

It’s important to identify these arbitrary lines in the sand, thanks.

I thought I had cringe resistance.

I had a similar thought I’ve been mulling with giving each server their own unique currency that would function like server “equity.” Voting on moderation, federation, etc could be handled through it.

If a server elects to, they could ask users to “buy in” to a server at registration. This could help cover hosting costs while still giving the user something.

We could’ve drone striked Putin a bajillion times by now

Yes, I did skip right to a “solution”

I came to the currency idea because of problems I foresee in Lemmy, some of them may be alleviated by other methods but I’ll outline below. And I’m new to this fediverse stuff so if I am misinterpreting something I’d appreciate being corrected!

1. Ownership and Community - Servers are owned by their hosts and moderator team. I am a part of a server but have no real connection to the other members. Sharing, finding content, meeting new people is rewarding, but I don’t need to find that in my local community currently. Users will gravitate towards more established servers - essentially coercing centralization of content. I think this problem is maybe unexpected as I’ve seen concern over fracturing (duplication) of content.
2. Moderation - There is no strong incentive for good governance of servers. Servers are free to allow bots to register or allow bad faith actors. They may be blacklisted, but this isn’t sustainable. Eventually I expect we’ll see (if not already) pockets of isolated servers that may be cross federated, but closed off to the open fediverse because it is too easy for poorly moderated servers to affect open servers. If a server wants to be taken seriously, they need to moderate and filter their userbase seriously.
3. Governance - back to #1, Servers are owner by their hosts - if a community disagrees with moderation or actions by the owners, you put up or get out. This guarantees that servers can not operate in perpetuity, and certainly not in a fair way.
4. Retention - There is no incentive to keep a server up. If I get tired of paying for my server, why wouldn’t I just shut it down and register on a unique server?

Sorry I did end up solutioning a bit in those problems but I tried to keep it short.

For what would be an acceptable outcome - Servers should have incentives in place to build their own community, outside the Fediverse Servers should have incentives in place to moderate, filter, and even cull their user base (based on that servers Moderation and Governance policies) Servers should have incentives in place to encourage perpetuity, and easy transfer of ownership

How does discord make money? It’s always concerned me what data they’re harvesting.

Thanks this link is great!

Thinking long term, it feels like “open” or “blacklisting” methods are not sustainable. Bad-actor servers can come along much faster than servers can coordinate blacklisting. Is there any movement towards “factionalized” communities or whitelist groups? Hoping there’s not a limit on number of whitelisted instances because it could get pretty long in the future.