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stefan, 3 months ago to random

If you had the time/skills, what feature would you like to work on that's missing or could be improved on the fediverse platform(s) you're using?

#fediverse #mastodon #SocialMedia

zdl, 4 months ago to random

I'm calling it now.

The sheer number of #Zuckerberg (and others) #quislings in the #Fediverse is going to kill it. Inside of five years #independent, #distributed #SocialMedia will be dead for all practical purposes, and the people holding the daggers covered in its blood will be those who were inside it.

#Facebook's "#Threads" was a test of the Fediverse and the Fediverse has failed with stunning rapidity. Inside of five years we'll be back to #corporatist #AntisocialMedia

Enjoy the ads!

thenexusofprivacy, 4 months ago to random

Strategies for the free fediverses

https://privacy.thenexus.today/strategies-for-the-free-fediverses/

The fediverse is evolving into different regions

• "Meta's fediverses", federating with Meta to allow communications, potentially using services from Meta such as automated moderation or ad targeting, and potentially harvesting data on Meta's behalf.

• "free fediverses" that reject Meta – and surveillance capitalism more generally

The free fediverses have a lot of advantages over Meta and Meta's fediverses, some of which will be very hard to counter, and clearly have enough critical mass that they'll be just fine.

Here's a set of strategies for the free fediverses to provide a viable alternative to surveillance capitalism. They build on the strengths of today's fediverse at its best – including natural advantages the free fediverses have that Threads and Meta's fediverses will having a very hard time countering – but also are hopefully candid about weaknesses that need to be addressed. It's a long list, so I'll be spreading out over multiple posts; this post currently goes into detail on the first two.

• Opposition to Meta and surveillance capitalism is an appealing position. Highlight it!

• Focus on consent (including consent-based federation), privacy, and safety

• Emphasize "networked communities"

• Support concentric federations of instances and communities

• Consider "transitively defederating" Meta's fediverses (as well as defederating Threads)

• Consider working with people and instances in Meta's fediverses (and Bluesky, Dreamwidth, and other social networks) whose goals and values align with the free fediverses'

• Build a sustainable ecosystem

• Prepare for Meta's (and their allies') attempts to paint the free fediverses in a bad light

• Reduce the dependency on Mastodon

• Prioritize accessibility, which is a huge opportunity

• Commit to anti-fascist, anti-racist, anti-colonial, and pro-LGBTQIA2S+ principles, policies, practices, and norms for the free fediverses

• Organize!

#fediverse #freefediverse #threads @fediverse @fediversenews

how do you block poa.st (kbin.social)

domain page for poast returns 404 error but am still see hate speech

rolle, 4 months ago to random

Over the past year these are the top arguments against the Fediverse:

1. Too left wing
2. Too difficult
3. Not enough people
4. Not enough mutuals
5. Too nerdy / too niche
6. Too confusing
7. Too ugly
8. Too many different options and apps
9. Too many servers
10. Not owned by a corporation (yes, really, one person told me he prefers an oligarch)
11. There is no algorithm
12. Hard to discover people

Many of these are based on the attitude and feeling, but there is some truth to it, for example discoverability is still a bit of an issue. I personally find most of the Fediverse web UIs clunky considering the big world standards, but I’m sure they will get better over time.

#Fediverse #Mastodon

For the "Why are you so hostile to Threads federating?" people.. (kbin.social)

Check this out. Remember that Facebook isn't just the place where moms and aunts swap recipes:...

carnage4life, 4 months ago to random

Glad to see the entire #fediverse roadmap for Threads laid out. Mastodon and other Fediverse users will be able to follow Threads users and vice versa. You will also be able to see comments from Fediverse users on your federated posts in Threads.

The long term goal is to allow people to take their followers with them from Threads to other Fediverse apps. The last one is huge and wasn’t on my radar. 🤯

https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/C046LSmPAuN/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

LALegault, 4 months ago to random

Can someone tell me in the #fediverse if this #threads thing is #satanicpanic or a real thing? #fedihelp

✍️ Edit: Mostly Satanic Panic, #mastodon.

A case for preemptively defederating with Threads (kbin.social)

With Meta beginning to test federation, there's a lot of discussion as to whether we should preemptively defederate with Threads. I made a post about the question, and it seems that opinions differ a lot among people on Kbin. There were a lot of arguments for and against regarding ads, privacy, and content quality, but I don't...

A case for preemptively defederating with Threads (kbin.social)

With Meta beginning to test federation, there's a lot of discussion as to whether we should preemptively defederate with Threads. I made a post about the question, and it seems that opinions differ a lot among people on Kbin. There were a lot of arguments for and against regarding ads, privacy, and content quality, but I don't...

kylewritescode, 4 months ago to meta

Okay #Fediverse, let’s get something straight. We are all grown ups here (hopefully) and can make choices for ourselves. We alive in a society that allows us the freedom to choose for ourselves what to do.

Why would you allow or want to be part of an instance where they choose for you who or what to block? I understand that there are BAD people on #Meta, just as there are on EVERY platform on the internet.

Give the regular people on each platform a chance to been seen.

#Threads

box464, 4 months ago to random

The proliferation of #ActivityPub is exciting. But don't dismiss those that want to defederate with corporate socials. The #fediverse was built by individuals escaping the harassment they faced on those platforms.

If you don't agree with your server admin's decision to federate with a specific domain, you can block it on your own. You have the power!

This seems preferable to an admin making the decision for all users.

Are there loopholes I'm not aware of here?

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moderating/#block-domain

cliffwade, 4 months ago to meta

With yesterday's announcement that Meta is starting to test Threads and ActivityPub integration, I see the #Fediverse is at an all time high again of whining and crying and being butthurt over it all.

I get stating your opinion about not wanting them here or whatever, but come on people, don't sound like a little 2 year old who lost their pacifier. It gets old, quick.

Just mute/block and move on and be done with it all. It's really that damn simple.

#Threads #Meta #ActivityPub #Mastodon

sour, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to fediverse French

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#fediverse

I'm starting to see some serious downsides to being able to see who downvotes you. (kbin.social)

A few days ago I downvoted someone's comment, and the next day I happened to notice every single comment I've ever made had at least one downvote. All from the person I dared to downvote the ONE time. I straight up asked why they did it, and they seem to think I'm an "obvious" troll account that "apparently just exist to...

What are your thoughts on Microblogs vs threads? (kbin.social)

When I first joined Kbin I posted threads due to being a reddit refugee but have started posting microblogs as time went on. I have also noticed some magazines have more threads while others have more microblog posts. For example kbinmeta has more threads while the most active magazine I moderate has mostly microblogs.

kylewritescode, 6 months ago to random

Goood morning and happy Wednesday #Fediverse. How has everyone’s week been so far?

Let’s kick off today with our #KoffeeWithKyle chat and discuss what our plans are for today. Anything exciting or just the usual?

For me, I’m currently sitting at a local coffee shop waiting for a client’s office to open so I can make a quick service call. Then it’s off to the office for the usual. Later will be just relaxing.

#GoodMorning #HappyWednesday #CoffeeMorning

Happy Good Morning GIF by Susanne Lamb

Mastodon Is the Good One (www.404media.co)

Mastodon is interoperable, decentralized, operated by a nonprofit, lively, and, ACTUALLY, isn't hard to use. So why is everyone championing Threads as the main Twitter alternative?

ActivityPub? (scripting.com)

And all the arguing in the world won't change the way things are going. ActivityPub isn't the standard. People want to be Mastodon-compatible, not ActivityPub-compatible. Much of what Mastodon is doing isn't part of ActivityPub, it's their own API.