Consumers are hungry for a new way of social networking, where trust and safety are paramount and power isn't centralized with a Big Tech CEO in charge...
"the company looked at the history of social media over the past decade and didn’t like what it saw… existing companies that are only model motivated by profit and just insane user growth, and are willing to tolerate and amplify really toxic content because it looks like engagement… "
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lemmy and reddit are too niche. mozilla getting into mastodon or friendica is far better
One of those half-billion user niches, eh.
God someone needs to help friendica. Mastodon and lemmy both have pretty decent ux. Friendica looks like it’s from 2006.