I'm wondering how the #Mastodon folks who were mortified to find out the #ActivityPub protocol specs to be pretty wanting re #privacy when they found out the *key apps had long had 'full text search' are feeling now having all these folks joining the #fediverse from #Reddit, and being able to access the same social timeline. Oh and #Meta coming soon.
For all the talk about the #fediverse being queer-built and a space for minorities, it's quickly been shown to not be that rugged #safety wise at the mass adoption level beyond a social contract and the fediblock.
My #Instagram is on private, thanks to the amount of bots and creepy guys that try to follow & message me. Can't wait until they can harass me on #Pixelfed, or worse - here. And if the laugh-reaction pile-on cookers that harass the queer creators I follow on Facebook ever get here, let alone my Karen and Kevin relatives and school friends, who'll force me to lock down here when they're not longer "over there", then we're gonna need to reinvent the fediverse again. Web 1.0 third times a charm or something.
I'm beginning to see why being a niche unknown community mostly using the same software was considered safety by so many.
Contrary to most people I consider ANY interaction of people online to be an example of social networking. If you consider that, this goes way beyond where corporate #SocialMedia are, and also way beyond the extent that current fedi apps are duplicating their functionality.
As for the #ActivityPub#FEP process.. anyone can and should contribute here if they can, so that we might move in the direction of this diversity and heterogenous nature of our #FediverseFutures.
A poll for fandom folks who have left Twitter: which platform have you chosen as your new home? "Home" in this case meaning the place you spend the majority of your time and/or share the majority of your fannish thoughts.
Feel free to elaborate on your answer in the replies!
@hollows Maybe the discussion should be NOT what corporate entity should we cede fandom to, and instead become how can we support federated servers so that we can continue to have free fandoms.
Maybe there should be a foundation to support the infrastructure of federated servers so that we don't feel tempted to go back to corporate instances. #fandom#fediverse#fediversefutures#fandom