Ech

They would still control it more than they did in Netflix, so it’s still upside in their eyes.

I hate that this meme always implies Trump handed that dude something smart when it was just absolute bullshit.

True!

Online content always seems to provide sub-par quality, even on good connections. Don’t need to worry about that with downloaded media.

Streaming services are bound and determined to make themselves Cable TV all over again. We had it good for a little while, at least.

There’s been a lot of that this past year.

When those "someone"s are reasonable, sure, it won’t be bad, but when they’re not? Give the power of federation to a few instances, and that’s not just a possibility, but an inevitability.

We already know Meta is planning to add themselves to the Fediverse. Set down this path and the someone deciding who gets access and how will end up being Zuck, or someone like him. That sound like a good future to you?

So defeating the point of Lemmy? Nah, that’s a terrible “solution” that will only serve to empower big servers imposing on smaller or even personal one’s.