So ... is the Fediverse better or worse than commercial social media platforms? Well, clearly, it is better in some ways and worse in some others.
Our friends in the math department will tell us: you are trying to compare two things that cannot be compared, neither is better than the other, just like you can't compare vectors or complex numbers directly, you cannot compare systems that have more than one feature directly!
(cont'd)
Johannes Ernst /
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2024-07-28 00:32:44
in reply to nevent1q…60ys
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