On this day one year ago we opened our #Mastodon instance, #VivaldiSocial. The first browser company to do so. 🎉
We believe a distributed, open standards, non-tracking #SocialNetwork is a better solution than the current popular social networks which build massive profiles on users and contribute to division and hate.
We’re happy to be part of the #Fediverse and are grateful that more than 40 000 people have chosen Vivaldi Social as their home. 🏠
Discord, Twitter, Reddit, and Tumblr have something in common and it’s not good
When looking at the recent history of many popular and highly successful online sites, there tends to be a certain trend they’re all following: rampant corporate greed butting heads with its original core mission and its user base, all of which eventually leads to major issues for the site.
Several sites in question — Discord, Twitter, Reddit, and Tumblr — all share that same fate, despite having very different purposes and suffering through a dissimilar series of events that led to their downfall or tipping point. And, they’re proof that most businesses will eventually hit a point in which management will decide to push profit margins and use bizarre and brutal methods to squeeze money out of it. The horrors of capitalism.
I like #Calckey and all, but what will decide if I spend more time here is how American-centric it will be.
One thing I love about #Mastodon is how for the first time since the dawn of social media/networks with have a tool that is not American, where Americans are not the majority of users (at least they were not until recently), and where most conversations do not revolve around American issues.
And... I just don't want to go back to that American-centric internet ever again.
Here? So far, I'm not too sure. Of course, it depends on who I follow, but the public timelines are a bit too on the wrong side of that issue... 🤔
A message from an old media #TheEconomist to the new..
#SocialMedia#SocialNetwork
You've been given free access to this article from The Economist as a gift. You can open the link five times within seven days. After that it will expire.
#LinkedIn is a #SocialNetwork designed for sociopaths.The amount of articles denying the existence of mental illnesses on this platform is unbelievable.
sono d'accordo con quanto dice @futuroprossimo, il futuro non sarà dominato da una singola piattaforma ma da una rete di piattaforme che offrono esperienze personalizzate e connesse fra di loro con un protocollo comune.
Credo che il fediverso per molti sarà un punto di non-ritorno e nessuno più vorrà investire il proprio tempo su giardini recintati.
People complain that :mastodon: #Mastodon is slow-paced. The other day I read about Patchwork based on the Secure Scuttlebutt protocol where you can only sync messages with other users when you're on the same local network. That's some hardcore slow-paced #SocialNetwork. 🙂
On the day that public records revealed that #ElonMusk had become #Twitter’s biggest #shareholder, an unknown sender texted the billionaire & recommended an article imploring him to acquire the #SocialNetwork outright.
#Musk’s purchase of Twitter, the 3k-word anonymous article said, would amount to a “declaration of war against the Globalist American Empire.” The sender of the texts was offering Musk… a playbook for the takeover & transformation of Twitter.
No one culture, or country, is superior to another. You can not force your sensibilities, or culture, on other people—especially not online and while you are in their country.
What makes the lack of algorithms in the #Fediverse great? I get to see posts and talk with people all around the world.
You don't get that on #SNS with algorithms because they filter things for you, and you have no control over it.
Don't get me wrong, algorithms by itself are not bad. Just that, it is used in a way that limits your exposure (your posts to the world; and the world to you); and you have no control.
Another improper use of it is, like in #Facebook's case, they push #ads as well as to control the narrative and shape people's minds and opinions.
Since most users wouldn't understand what ActivityPub / Fediverse is, it is likely there will be far less than 40% or 30% (guesstimate) of their userbase who will appear in the Fediverse network.
It will highly depend on how they will explain the benefits of enabling ActivityPub in their accounts.
#socialmedia platforms are becoming conglomerates of hate day by day. The polarization of society is leading to a complete extinction of dialogue and constructive discussion.
BTW, is it possible for a government with a dictatorship (like China) to block decentralized and distributed social network which consists of many different instances on the Internet? If yes, how?
This place isn't perfect. It has its problems, flaws, and limitations. It's not immune to hatred or those who spread negativity.
Yet, here I've encountered incredible people, a marvelous community committed to bringing constructive engagement, dialogue, and social interaction back to the network.
Thank you, Fediverse.
Thank you, friends of the Fediverse.