OK. :: sets down suitcase :: Looks like I've moved over here from mastodon.social.
Seem to have lost my follows, but I think I can rebuild that.
So how about a little introduction post? I'm a woman in her '60s, living in Southeastern Pennsylvania. I have a partner, a 10-year old son, two Schipperkes, and five hens.
The question I ask myself a lot these days is, how do we survive the next century cooperatively? I'm alarmed by the risk of authoritarianism here in the US.
I think it’s really important to reply to comments like this to raise awareness that #Fediverse is absolutely not outside the reach of #bigdata collection.
In fact, given how the core protocol is set up with few privacy controls, it arguably makes #Mastodon content even more likely to be vacuumed up by big data.
People need to realize that they have only limited control over their content here. Anything they put in is effectively broadcast to the world, no matter privacy settings, and if you’re worried about big data, well, big data operators are happy to vacuum that up.
So WHY is #BlueSky building its #AT protocol around #bigdata collection? I see big data as antithetical to #fediverse. I’m here on #Mastodon expressly to be out of the firing range of the big data obsession. My entire Internet device ecology at home is designed to foil data tracking. Why would I stay on the fediverse if I knew it was feeding into some megalomaniac’s big data obsession?
I see two conversations talking past one another. One is concerned about how to ‘scale’ various aspects of the #fediverse. The other is expressly trying to avoid contexts where getting things to #scale is a priority. I would argue it is a delusion to think a scaled-up algorithm-driven platform shows you everything that is happening at that minute. Most of what is happening in the world is not visible on social media. #Twitternever showed us the world.
@atomicpoet A few thoughts from a non-technical wonderer:
Does the announced profound need of recoding #Twitter imply it's going to apply and absorb AT-protocol, to federate first with #Bluesky and perhaps within itself too – on multiple server centers.
Who governs the AT-protocol, if it's not open-sourced (like #ActivityPub'ed #Fediverse )? Who owns it? Who's going to buy the core infra of such walled gardened #federation? 🤔
Well, I haven't been using my Pixelfed account for posting much because:
notifications of activity on my posts have been spotty at best and non-existent at worst, which has been most of the time
and
replies to my Pixelfed posts from Mastodon don't make it back to Pixelfed as comments (and so definitely no notification of them), which was identified as a bug that was announced as fixed in a recent update but I'm still experiencing the issue.
But it's also not entirely @gruber's fault because the media doesn't really talk about the Fediverse, and when they do, it's as a synonym for "Mastodon".
How would @gruber know about the massive development efforts to build more user-friendly alternatives to Mastodon?
No one in the media talks about the growth of *key apps, and how they're now the #2 most used Fediverse platform.
We need to follow and boost journalists so that they have a positive experience in the #Fediverse, tell their colleagues, and write about it. They are excellent #multipliers for marketing.
Looks like @gruber ‘s position is predicated on design, #UI, and onboarding. I have no invite for bluesky so it is clearly not an inclusive media, or open to all and inviting, and Gruber clearly does not care about inclusivity.
But even on the grounds of design, UI, ease of onboarding, there are star examples that incorporate #ActivityPub protocol and in #Fediverse. I am partial to #Calckey and calckey.social, and Calckey does provide a good example. Perhaps the design gurus and social media pundits need to browse a little more of the Fediverse before their pronouncements.
People can understand and manage a lot of stuff. We believe they would enjoy fediverse the way it was intended, ie. setup a couple accounts on instances that interest them, and toot in them. That has been the basic promise and beauty of #fediverse and can be explained simply and easily.
What we got is people being funnelled into another silo, and it almost seems intentional, ie. search-engine based, but there's another element. 1/2
At the time I felt I was somewhat like the "annoying fly in the ointment" 😜 because I came with more non-technical considerations related to positioning of the #technology and strategy towards long-term adoption.
Something I've since done too for the #Solid project, and am now doing for the #Fediverse, I am afraid 😬
Generally speaking I feel a weakness in #FOSS is deepdiving tech, with unclarity on bigger picture and needs that must be addressed.
Love it when a toot appears in the Reddit wilderness! Also this is hilarious @LadyDragonfly 🤣
On a more serious note, this type of re-share is a very positive signal. It shows our #fediverse successfully cultivating a culture and accompanying content that the mainstream internet community finds relatable and thus valuable.
You can make it english-only, it's not much of an issue, but don't ignore everyone outside of the US. If you have multiple options related to individual US cities, but have none for #EU or countries like China, India, Egypt, Germany, etc... it comes off as extremely ignorant. And that's before we start talking about everything else than just geographic locations alone.