• pannacotta__@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    While this is good, I can’t help but feel that the branding of the decentralised social media ecosystem is hurting the growth a little bit. The -verse suffix, imo, is just too tainted from all the cryptobro metaverse scams and really makes this seem like some crypto scam as opposed to an alternative to the current crumbling social media platforms.

    Regardless, I hope this ecosystem does take off, as it does seem useful and interesting.

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        1 year ago

        That’s fair. Maybe I’m just chronically online, but it really skeeves me out how eerily similar some of the terms here are to crypto scams. Not saying this is one, obviously- as far as I can tell, there really isn’t any monetary incentive to run an instance-, but the language used at the moment can get uncomfortably close, which definitely might push people away.

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      1 year ago

      You’re really denouncing an entire decentralized open source eco system cause you don’t like that verse is a suffix that can be used for multiple things?

      Jfc.

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        1 year ago

        Please read what I said again. I don’t have an issue with the ecosystem, and I said as much in the original post. I have an issue with the branding of the ecosystem and am concerned that it’s hampering growth because of its associations with venture capitalists/crypto scams/metaverse scams, etc.