OC The enshittification of “enshittification” (blog.bloonface.com)
YSK: The Fediverse is a privacy nightmare (blog.bloonface.com)
TLDR: While Fediverse won’t directly serve you ads, anonymous bad actors other than Meta can save, redistribute, and even dox you for any information you post here. Anything you post here can/will remain forever on some malicious instance that doesn’t honor deletion requests. So be careful!
Fediverse privacy nightmare? (blog.bloonface.com)
I think they are leaving out something quite important in this blog post - nobody is using their real names here....
OC The fediverse is a privacy nightmare (blog.bloonface.com)
ActivityPub, the protocol that powers the fediverse (including Mastodon – same caveats as the first two times, will be used interchangeably, deal with it) is not private. It is not even semi-private. It is a completely public medium and absolutely nothing posted on it, including direct messages, can be seen as even remotely...
Is Your Privacy Safe? The Hidden Dangers of Fediverse (blog.bloonface.com)
Why has Mastodon adoption stalled? (blog.bloonface.com)
Pretty interesting opinion piece on some of the UX hurdles open source and federated software faces.
Mastodon (and the Fediverse) is failing. Here is why. (blog.bloonface.com)
Long read but well worth it if you care....
Why did the #TwitterMigration fail? (blog.bloonface.com)
Thought this post was worth a read (blog.bloonface.com)
OC Why did the #TwitterMigration fail? (blog.bloonface.com)
I’ve been using fediverse stuff (Mastodon and, most recently, Calckey – I’m just going to use “Mastodon” as shorthand here, purists can bite me) for over a year now, a…