Think it’s a terrible idea. For some reason people dont get that many of us are on the fediverse because we want to get as far away from anything that even remotely resembles, copies, piggybacks off of, or otherwise has anything to do with corporate-owned, centralized, ad-infested, user-hostile, privacy-invasive, social media platforms.
and you can still have that in whatever defederated safe zone you want. i’m sick of this “the fediverse isn’t for the masses” sentiment. YOUR community might not be but, the fediverse is literally made for the masses.
i don’t necessarily agree with OPs ideas, but not because they’re trying to attract new people to the fediverse.
i’m sick of this “the fediverse isn’t for the masses” sentiment.
The previous commenter didn’t say anything to indicate that is their opinion. They said:
many of us are on the fediverse because we want to get as far away from anything that even remotely resembles, copies, piggybacks off of, or otherwise has anything to do with corporate-owned, centralized, ad-infested, user-hostile, privacy-invasive, social media platforms.
Which one of
corporate owned
centralized
ad-infested
user-hostile
privacy-invasive
is synonymous with “the fediverse is not for the masses,” in your opinion?
I mean, you should ask @mark where they got those bullet points, I didn’t see them in OPs post about bird marketing either.
I took their post to be insinuating that those negatives all come with large masses of people joining a platform but ultimately I don’t know if there was enough context in the post to know.
At the end of the day marketing is just about telling stories, humans always did that it wasn’t like invented by big corps. I just think Mastodon is really bad at telling stories.
I don’t necessarily think copy old Twitter. Just use some ideas (birds) and develop them further with the idea of interoperability which makes it unique. That’s exactly what Mastodon has done in the technical squere.
On all instances. Each instance has copy of what happened and every action is relayed by community instance (in this case, Beta) to all subscriber of the community.
What info do you think they will get? The only info is what you put in the public info on the user profile on your instance. So they can get your username (well user@instance), avatar, about info. That's about it. Anything else like email address and password hashes are only stored on the instance you signed up to.
Every single comment and post anyone ever names and anything they are subscribed to. Run everyone’s content through some sentiment analysis, and now you have a great set of users, emails and their IP, grouped into interests, general mood, and political leanings, perfect for advertising.
Yup, that is what professional/corporate scrapper do from the very beginning. Fediverse has poor privacy, and it is designet that way. It is better to share only safe content to fediverse for our safety, and share more private things on messaging/chatting apps like matrix or email only to person we trust.
I was going to join calckey.social/firefish.social but I’m a little hesitant now because mastodon.art defederated with it, and I follow multiple accounts from that instance.
I’m on calckey.world, and it seems to be federated with mastodon.art. at least post from there appear on my global feed
The exact opposite is true. I am part of a very small minority and I made my own fediverse instances. Everyone who tries to go ableist/racist/misogynist or whathaveyou gets the boot. Very easy solution indeed.
The issue right now is how hard it is to set up an instance. In my opinion, every router on the world should have instances running (and tunneled to not dox themselves) so people are not dependent on big instances.
I would downvote this since it’s misleading af but it also sparks debate so I‘ll refrain.
The admin (same as firefish.social) is distracted by school and work and appears to be absent from maintenance work. In the short to medium term, I wouldn’t bet on any reliability.
It does seem that they’re still committing to the code base relatively recently, so the project is probably not dead.
You can join the Matrix space in the instance sidebar to have a look. Basically, it’s a storage issue, but the admins have to investigate (I’m pretty sure they are still asleep as of now)
tbh IMO i Don’t think you could persuade them to do that, the whole make decentralized social media more decentralized is not something that will have significant value to them, would be better to have some volunteer led non profit with a governance model that has a decentralized power structure as the “default” option.
There has to be at least one celebrity that would rather be surfing the fediverse than doing celebrity stuff with other hot celebrities. I would be shocked to find out it was Margot Robbie, but not shocked if it was Nicholas Cage.
if youre talking about activitypub federation, does it matter what software you use? theres a reason its a standard protocol.
i would hope that any instance of any federating software would just pick up where it left off with regards to activitypub.. cept your server will be throwing a lot of 'content not found'.
now, other pleroma or derivatives might be speaking with your instance over some custom api, and that obviously wouldnt work.. but so?
Oh, ok. It’s Akkoma (upgraded/migrated from Pleroma). I just thought that by actually specifying that, I was going to get XY Problem’d by people (how to fix it etc.).
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