I don't think people are realising the danger the Fediverse is in.
The only thing stopping corporations and VCs taking over this place is that the Fediverse is spread out on many different servers, which makes it very difficult to purchase.
If most of the Fediverse ends up on mastodon.social, which is now a strong possibility, there will be nothing to stop most of it being sold to Musk or Zuckerberg or whoever.
The bigger mastodon.social becomes, the more likely a buyout is to happen.
@feditips This is a very important thought: what if mastodon.social and the legal entity behind it become an ever-larger percentage of the #Fediverse? When do we need to say "stop"? And how do we say "stop"?
Please stop spreading panic about the uncertain future of #fediverse, and blaming one of it's creators/platforms for the downfall.
If you know anything about the #openSource, is that it can't be bought.
The true danger comes from the #bigTech (closed) platforms joining fediverse.
They can (ab)use their money to attract more people to those platforms, than all of the open source platforms combined.
But on the #Fediverse caring is core to softwear, think maybe you are expressing the #geekproblem here... have a think about this and get back to me if you're interested in talking more on this problem that geeks tend to have.
I believe that with #Fediverse, one does not have to “leave” any server for anything else. The more the better, after all these are all federated, aren’t they?
This is merely a thought “experiment”, how might it be if we had something like “calckey.social” back in this time last year, when many people were leaving twitter in search of better alternatives, and we had people coming over to Mastodon but then ended up either not using or leaving because some of them found Mastodon to be confusing to use, and anytime people brought up the issue of Fediverse, these users would say Fediverse is too confusing (conflating Fediverse with Mastodon).
In hindsight, seems to me that if they discovered the power of #Fediverse with something like calckey.social, they would have stayed on. Sadly, although there was pleroma/misskey/calckey/foundkey, none of these gained the kind of user base that’d have been helpful to “spread” the fediverse around, 🙂 Mastodon is great but there is definitely room for others.
@kevinyoung my memory of it is that many thought it was good but ended up just staying on Facebook because that’s where people were, and the greater amount of manual control you had in Google+ was good in theory but annoying in practice for enough people that it just never really stood a chance.
Lessons for #fediverse v big social? (An exercise for the reader)
I am contemplating the idea of starting a #pixelfed instance. I thought if it in the past, but it seemed so cumbersome that I gave up. Mastodon felt easier and since I started to use containers (k8s), it is even better - a breeze to upgrade.
Has things change? Has Pixelfed became easier to deploy and admin?
In the beginning of 2010 I was registered to over 150 social media sites. The rise of the social media were exciting times. There were rarely any algorithms, no TikTok, no Instagram for Android, no ads on Twitter.
However, over the years everything went to shit. The social media sites died one by one and couple of the dominating players slowly shifted to platforms where your data was no longer yours, where you were the money machine. The sad thing is, most of the people didn't even notice this change.
Okay, we need to talk, especially those who are tech-savvy.
I love you all, but let's not start immediately creating a new Linux with #Mastodon or #Fediverse in general.
The #Linux community, when a distro like #Ubuntu started to gain popularity, quickly made it a target to almost take down. And, to be honest, they were not particularly friendly in their speeches or reflections to newbies who decided to take the plunge. 1/3
I saw @Uraael mention how their engagement had really skyrocketed with the influx of folks from #mastodon at calckey.social and they posted a screenshot of their activity graph. Thought I'd heck mine, too.
Juli 2008: Identi.ca, powered by OStatus geht online. Die erste öffentlich eingeführte föderierte Softwareplattform.
Juli 2010: Friendica, powered by DFRN (Mistpark während der Entwicklung und Friendika zum Launch) wird veröffentlicht. Es bindet bereits verschiedene Netze des Fediverse ein, sowie kommerzielle Plattformen wie Facebook, Twitter & später Google-Plus.
November 2010: Diaspora Launch (powered by diaspora*).
Zwischen 2010 und 2012 wurde der Begriff #Fediverse erstmals geprägt, um die markenbasierte Terminologie identiverse (basierend auf identica) zu ersetzen.
Juni 2013: Pump.io wird als Protokoll gelauncht und in StatusNet als Kommunikationsprotokoll verwendet. Pump.io dient als Vorlage/Vorbild von ActivityPub das ab 2014 durch das W3C definiert wird.
2014: Das W3C gründet die ActivityPub-Protokollarbeitsgruppe.
Dezember 2015: Hubzilla, powered by ZOT wird gelauncht. Es handelt sich um eine Abspaltung von Friendica, mit dem Ziel weitere starke Datenschutzwerkzeuge zur Verfügung zu stellen, sowie eine hohe Ausfallsicherheit zu realisieren, in dem eine "Nomadische Identität" die Kopplung des Nutzerprofils an eine Instanz aufgelöst.
Oktober 2016: Mastodon, powered by OStatus wird auf Hacker News öffentlich bekannt gemacht.
2017: PeerTube, powered by ActivityPub und WebTorrent spezialisiert sich auf das Verteilen von Videodateien.
Juni 2017: Funkwhale, powered by ActivityPub fokussiert sich auf das Verteilen von Audiodateien.
Juli 2017: Hubzilla kündigt die Unterstützung des neuen ActivityPub-Protokoll Protokolls, neben ZOT an.
September 2017: Mastodon kündigt die Unterstützung des neuen ActivityPub-Protokoll an und ersetzt das bis dahin verwendete OStatus. Für eine Übergangszeit werden beide Protokolle bedient.
Januar 2018: ActivityPub hat offiziell die „W3C-Empfehlung“ erreicht (auch bekannt als gestarteter, stabiler, endgültiger, empfohlener Standard)
November 2018: Friendica unterstützt neben OStatus, diaspora*, Pump.io, DFRN, RSS, E-Mail zusätzlich ActivityPub.
Dezember 2018: Pixelfed, powered by ActivityPub spezialisiert sich auf das Teilen von Bildern.
Oktober 2022: Streams powered by Nomad wird ZOT mittelfristig in Hubzilla ersetzen und verbindet die nomatische Identität mit ActivityPub.
I'm known as @expertmanofficial , have people that enjoy following my content!
Soon, my previous account from mstdn.social will be moved to defcon.social - at least I planning to.
Here are reasons for me to move:
Mstdn used to have 1K characters for posts and had lots of my favorite themes - not anymore sadly it's 500 characters now and no themes :-(
Defcon has 1K chars, but still, no themes, the default one is customized.
Both has good moderation that I respect to :-)
Since 500 characters isn't enough me, and I don't know any other Mastodon instance that would have good moderation at the same level as well as Mstdn does , I think it's time for me to move to DefCon....
The tutorial demands (gently suggests) an #introduction and who am I to not give it one, even though I finished everything and came back to post later.
I am Terrorskull, clearly, and I am new to #calckey. I have been on #Mastodon for about a year but decided I should check out what else the #Fediverse has to offer. For now, at least, this will be my backup account to @terrorskull, but I still plan to post here from time to time. The web interface seems significantly better, dare I say... modern!
This concludes my introduction. Thank you for reading. Feel free to follow me here and/or on my @terrorskull account for random musings and sharing/boosts of various science and gaming related information.
Before I forget, the required cat photo is included, as a cat photo is always required for an introduction.
Welcome in, o dismayed souls, to a slightly kinder version of social media. A version not controlled by corporations, or even medium businesses (unless they have their own instance for their employees...like journalists.)
You've probably made your first #Fediverse account on #MastodonDotSocial - and, hey, that's a way to get started! But after a few months - or a few days if you're feeling particularly adventurous - you may want to move to a less-populated server.
We got a big problem folks if most of the user growth happens on mastodon.social it will make it easier for people like Musk to buy the entire #fediverse and if that happens game over for us all. Mastodon.social doesn't have to be your only option if you want advanced search come over to #universedon which is run by @supernovae if you want a higher character limit also come to universeodon which has 1000 calckey.social has 3000 https://mstdn.social/@feditips/110260432218416976
I had never seen an Oystercatcher in person before so I was more than thrilled to get a glimpse of this one on an afternoon photo outing. The name of this unique, orange-beaked and eye avian may indicate that their diet consists only of oysters, the coastal birds diet is more varied, dining on bivalves, snails, worms, mussels, fish and crabs. #oystercatcher#birds#avian#photography#MastoPhoto#BuyIntoArt#fediverse#FediGiftShop
Dear #fediverse, please tag me when you come across #meowlogisms (i.e. cat-inspired wordplay) in any language, like the well-known purrfect or caturday.
I collect these words - for science (#linguistics). Thank you 🐈