More like corporate owned social web.

Reddit is (was) a social network with tens of thousands of communities and only ONE instance. That makes it easy for a small number of arrogant, greedy billionaires to ruin things for everyone.

Lemmy doesn't make that mistake. By being decentralized, it prevents exactly that sort of thing from happening.

as new platforms spring up and grow at astonishing rates, I find this hard to take seriously

Ok, I don't agree with everything but it was a interesting discussion and interesting hearing other points of view.

Can't forget about Twitter right now either. Think YouTube is the only social media right now without any major fuck ups.

I thought this was a good overall discussion but they made a point that bothered me early on. They made a claim that in part the fedipact was because white tech guys didn't want to share their place with women but the fediverse (Mastodon in particular) has a significant strong queer presence and they are some of the most vocal in their anti-Meta views. Go read https://fedipact.online/ and tell me those look like white tech guy instances.