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.
The evolution of social networking: NPR visits a museum for self-described tech nerds, where they're preserving the machines that inspired inventors to create today's essential communication tech. "It's a Willy Wonka's factory of clattering gizmos, many invented by steam age eccentrics and tinkerers who managed to connect an entire world.” says writer Brian Mann.
...toots, 2 incidences of what I would describe as "cultural clashes". I was trying to explain the customs here, like being an open #SocialNetwork, maintaining a friendly tone, not discriminating against other "groups", etc., but that did not work out too well.
I don't want to go into details, but I do feel the need for more control of my threads and posts, apart from deletion and blocking users.
E.g. there are these events that I would call #FediBombing, an...
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... 🤔
I wonder if anybody has thought about building a fully #distributed#socialNetwork based on a #DHT such as #kademlia. I'm guessing adding support for a protocol based on this (I2P, IPFS or whatever) on any other distributed SN might do it?
BTW, I recently had a trip down #memoryLane and realized that I might technically count as a #publishedAuthor. The story goes like this: a long long time ago in an Internet far far away, there was a social network that started in the best way: as a #POSSE aggregator. The name of the network was #FriendFeed, and apparently it reached its highest reach among users in Italy and Turkey.
(Why? No idea.)
Now, before #FriendFeed got gobbled up and destroyed by #Facebook, there was a pretty lively and intellectually stimulating community there, even though too many of them (for my personal test) used it as a “proper” #socialNetwork rather than as an aggregator. Of the most curious things that came out of the experience, the one I want to talk about is the one organized by #BarabbaEdizioni, a «non-existent publisher» https://barabba-log.blogspot.com/p/barabba-edizioni.html