Last couple of months has been dramatic and there is a huge demand for ethical and safe social media. Even mainstream conservatives start to look for alternatives when US oligarchs wage hybrid warfare against their nation.

And there are so many low hanging fruits right now. Like Facebook event and marketplace replacements on the fediverse. Or just a Facebook alternative that isn't Frendica. Or maybe a commercial fork of Frendica.

I'm not involved in any development of fediverse software, so I'm asking here. Do you experience more interest from venture capital?

Also, I assume EU will pour big money into social media alternatives, starting 2025.

Note: I'm not interested in a discussion regarding if VC is good or bad for the fediverse. That's a good topic for another post though.

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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

You can control the platform, so long as "the platform" means only your own instance. I have tabs open right now to both reddit.com and discuss.tchncs.de and the only difference as far as "control" is concerned is that here I can read posts by users, and from communities, that are registered elsewhere than discuss.tchncs.de too, the operators of the latter still otherwise have the same "control" as those as of reddit.

[–] eltoukan@jlai.lu 2 points 10 hours ago

Hm, they have control over the instance but not directly (except if they fork etc) over the software? So comparing to reddit they can't modify the UI to include ads, can't inject tracking, etc.