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The Fediverse Fiasco: A Recipe for Disaster or a Shot at Redemption?
The so-called "fediverse" is touted as a revolutionary attempt to create an open, interconnected network of social media platforms. But we all know how that’s played out so far – a mess of rivalries, incompatibilities, and plain old laziness. The major players, like Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp, have no incentive to change their ways, stuck as they are in their lucrative positions of power.
Enter sub.club, a supposed solution to this mess. The brainchild of naive idealists, sub.club seeks to "make money" in the fediverse, a notion that’s downright laughable. Who needs this additional layer of complexity, anyway?
The founder, Bart Decrem, claims that sub.club will empower creators to "get paid" from their audiences. Ha! As if the very notion of "direct ways to make money" isn’t itself a cancer on the internet.
And then there’s Anuj Ahooja, the mysterious figure behind sub.club, who prattles on about "one last network effect." Whatever that means. Has anyone bothered to ask what actual people want from their online experiences?
Meanwhile, sub.club is launching as a developer preview, because of course it is – who else would bother with something as mundane as "standard" and "portable" APIs?
Furthermore, sub.club’s API seems to cater to the whims of obsessive fans who’ll pay for silly features like "add[ing] animals to photos." Good grief. Why not just stick to TikTok and its endless permutations of cat videos?
And don’t even get me started on the "premium bot" nonsense. Sub.club’s tokenized future is a dystopian nightmare in the making.
As an aside, let’s not forget that these "Mastodon servers" are basically just glorified chat rooms for the eccentric and the bored. Who else would care about "servers" or "admins" and their maintenance needs?
Ahooja’s parting shot – that "there’s a lot of free labor that runs the fediverse right now, so let’s make sure people are getting compensated" – only serves to highlight the obvious: this whole charade is built on the backs of enthusiastic volunteers who’ll never see a cent.
The fediverse might just be a ticking time bomb, and sub.club might just be the spark that sets off the fireworks. Stay tuned for more thrilling updates from this trainwreck-in-the-making!
