Wait. Are people blaming anybody for this?
It’s everyone’s fault. Especially big corps, energy companies and some governments with less than good environmental policies that have been increasing greenhouse gas emissions for decades now. And the governments that have enabled them to do so.
A very interesting article. There are some valid arguments to let Meta join the fediverse, even if I disagree with them doing so.
Getting people to leave Facebook for another platform when all their family and friends are on there is an extremely difficult task. God knows I’ve tried. With Twitter it was easier since Elon Musk has been continuously fucking up the service and being an openly ignorant and intolerant asshat and playing god with everyone’s accounts. People quickly sought alternatives and soon found Mastodon.
Recently the same thing happened with Reddit, but it was much softer. Redditors aren’t so keen on letting go of their decade-old high-karma accounts and all the saved discussions and comments and the overall increasing popularity of the service in the media. You kind of feel like you’re part of something big, whereas with Lemmy or Kbin it still feels like a very young underground community without any attention.
And I hate to say it, but Diaspora, which is the alternative to Facebook, really hasn’t taken off at all, sadly. It needs to be brought back to the forefront along with Mastodon, Lemmy and KBin.
We’re literally witnessing the apocalypse, and yet I’m expected to go to work on Monday.
@sbv That’s just so fucking dumb.