Just a little storytime about Vinted.
I just wanted to register on Vinted to sell some second-hand stuff, because I haven’t had much success elsewhere. I would have never imaged that they will reject my addy.io alias. After a couple of annoying e-mails detailing how to register an account, I was left with the answer on the screenshot after trying to get an explanation why the domain I am paying for (not some random free gmail address) is not worthy of their services…
More and more sites are moving away from allowing users access when creating accounts with temporary or alias addresses, and usage with vpns. Identity based accounts can’t be tracked if they don’t know your true identity.
In the not too distant future, everything you do online and off will be connected to your real world identity.
That will drive so many people to IPFS and darknets like Freenet. And with population, businesses will come. You may never be able to access Wells Fargo from it, but there will be options.
Mastodon exploded with the Twitter drama. Lemmy’s grown substantially with Reddit fuckery. Neither are exactly mainstream, but you know what? I lived through the time when banks weren’t online, and shopping wasn’t online, and the internet and the web were much smaller: smaller is in many ways better. Sometimes having just enough, and not everything and everyone, is better.
Yeah there’s a beautiful size, Lemmy isn’t quite there yet, but it’s closer than Reddit is. And hopefully it’ll be way harder to enshittify.
I just wish there were more communities that aren’t technology or politics.
Yeah. That’s a symptom of being small I guess. As it grows, the critical mass of others with your hobby will eventually be reached. But I totally agree.