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rolle, to random
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My experience so far with microblogging services:

Threads: I'm in a wrong party and don't know what to say. I feel awkward, everyone is so happy with their gym selfies. Everyone asking endless questions and asking things from the algorithm. Lots of people use it like Instagram, every post is a selfie with a meaningless caption. Some are copy-pasting the same sentence over and over again for each line. Endless quote-post memes... What the fuck is this shit I don't even...

Bluesky: A Twitter clone, but still very barebones. Notifications are still not working, there are no hashtags and I don't find any relevant content to me in any of the feeds. It's mostly Facebook-like what's up in life, furry scene and AI photos. No news, no tech/web scene, no nothing. Not to mention it's still invite-only and won't support ActivityPub (yeah I know the reasoning behind that but for me it's mostly bullshit, I look forward to trying bridgy fed).

Mastodon and the Fediverse: Here I'm at home on my own server. Most content, most features. A community is friendly but has also lots of nitpicking, some angry dudes. Still the most safest, most healthy and most customized, but somehow the most hated network elsewhere. "Too techie", they say. "Too difficult", they say. "No algorithm", they say.

Nostr: Kinda promising, but way too obscure, strange and even techier than Mastodon. Too much crypto shit.

Well, that's that. Sometimes I feel like Internet is ruined. But I believe in the open social web movement and I want to see this grow.

In no other place I can write a status update as freely as this, as long as this or with a low bar as this. I LIKE this 100%. The same can't be said in those other places I'm experimenting with out of curiosity. There I'm the weird kid. Here I feel like myself.

wjmaggos,
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@rolle

I'd argue that we're stuck cause we're buying into their framing. decentralized social media is a technology, not a corporate platform. email is the best comparison. if you could only email with other Gmail accounts but Gmail was huge with lots of nice features, many would be happy with that. Same with Outlook. But when we explain it obviously shouldn't work that way, they'd have no argument. We're clunky like email was at first, but we'll obviously get better with more user adoption.

wjmaggos, to random
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what I'd love to see is also support basic posts ala . I bet we could get a pretty cool pod going at ccmusic.social if this was the case.

wjmaggos, to random
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This updated page about the BBC's experiment with the #fediverse is great and it's where we should point every journalist who has questions about joining us here. The only thing holding us back from becoming "the social network for news" is that we just don't have critical mass yet. And as much as we might try to do it ourselves, it's going to take journalists convincing other journalists to invest here. Luckily, they are the perfect people to make that case, eventually.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub

wjmaggos, to random
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The problem on a decentralized social network like the #fediverse isn't really Nazis. People who have deep sympathy for the Palestinians can come off as anti-Jewish right now etc. On a system that doesn't force you to see anything, the problem is assholes. People who come at you w/ no care for what you might not like. That's what creates a shitty experience, not people who post crazy/mean shit but don't tag others. And even considerate replies we disagree with will always be hard. #LiberalValues

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