You end up with a Federated model because basically only 1% of people have the skills and willingness to run a server. So each server has to have 100 or more accounts.
If only 1% of people are willing to run a server, then inevitably most people are going to be trusting some random Jeff to be their administrator.
I quite like the Nostr model where the servers are just dumb relays and everyone has more than one of them, keeping their own data with it just cached on a relay for people who are currently offline.
But the relays either end up forwarding illicit, illegal, and spammy things, or else they moderate and so once again they become Jeff Administrator and we're back to trusting random nerds to moderate for you.
So I think we are stuck with federation of some sort, until people will run their own servers.
Maybe Alexa will have a fedi server built in one day, but until then people have to find their own Jeffs from their community. Maybe through their church or their job or their football club or sewing circle or whatever.
Apparently they didn’t even let Tucker Carlson record a final episode to wrap up plot lines and now we’ll never know if they caught those pooping Gypsies
When I first came to the #Fediverse, I stumbled upon the idea that #QuotePosts (or #QuoteTweets or #QuoteToots or #Quotes) are inherently toxic as a feature. At first I thought it might hold some truth; the more I come to think of it, the more I find the idea absurd. Yes, that's a strong word, but let me explain.
You see, many posts (if not the majority) on any social platform are links with a comment. A youtube link. A link to an article. A link to a blog post. Nobody considers this function "toxic" by design.
And this is essentially what a #QuotePost is, as well. A public post in a microblogging platform is... a public microblog post. The idea that it's perfectly fine to post links with blog posts outside the fediverse with a comment, but not links from microblog posts inside the fediverse with a comment, simply makes no sense.
This becomes more obvious if you consider the same exact feature on facebook. You can "share" a facebook post, either with a comment or without one. It becomes a new post with its own comments.
Nobody (afaik) has claimed that Share on Facebook is a "toxic" feature. You don't see anyone complaining about it, or asking Facebook to remove this functionality. The complaints about quotes is a Fediverse peculiarity. Why?
This is a Twitter problem. If Twitter is a toxic community, which permits -or actually promotes- toxic behaviour, and users utilize #QuoteTweets for that, it's not an inherent problem of the feature. We can post links to public content with comments all day and not be abusive. That's what quotes are.
So the problem is not #quotes. The problem might be the idea that the #Fediverse should replace #Twitter. If you see the Fediverse as the new Twitter, it's an easy mistake to blame its features for its negative aspects. But abusive and toxic behaviour is a matter of moderating, not of features. You can be as abusive as you want without having quotes. Having the ability to quote a post is not what will transform you and make you act like an asshole.
The Fediverse is not, and should not be, a Twitter replacement. We can be better than a for-profit public arena.
And you can quote me on that. :blobbonedealwithit:
@atomicpoet Twitter in a pretty shrewd move at the outset made the blue check a status symbol. It tiered its users and gave them something to aspire too. I imagine it was also a great carrot for prospective advertisers. It's scarcity created demand. Of course Elon with zero clue immediately devalued the check mark to zero so now those that once had status have been stripped of it, including, you guessed it, the press.
That said, I very much believe in what Calckey is doing. Behind the scenes, I fund Calckey development and offer a bit of advice here and there. But I don't code Calckey.
Now some people have also asked, "Why don't you migrate your Mastodon account over here?"
There are reasons for this: I actually have multiple accounts everywhere. And I update them constantly. Just a fraction of my accounts:
When it comes to the Fediverse, I'm incredibly active!
But also, I've found that if I talk too much on any one server, I tend to inundate people -- and I don't want to do that. I want calckey.social to grow and prosper with its own culture, and I'm happy to see that it is.
All that said, I want to emphasize this: Calckey is under active development. It is a work in progress. You will find bugs.
Developing software, especially on a volunteer basis, is incredibly hard.
But the other side of the coin is that Calckey is improving. For that reason, I am excited to be part of this journey in my own small way.
More than 500 accounts have been registered on calckey.social.
505 accounts to be exact.
I really am shocked. There's no words to describe how I'm feeling. I'm happy -- but also understand that for many of you, this is your first foray into the world of Misskey/Calckey.
Hopefully, this server acts as a great ambassador for this exciting tech!
Thank you to everyone who's made calckey.social their home.
I’m very excited to see the discussion for the @Mastodon post migration issue has picked back up. This is probably the single largest gap between rhetoric and reality on #Mastodon.
It’s anecdata, but every singe person I mention account migration to immediately asks “oh, so my posts can move with me.” This is, unfortunately, immidiately followed up with disappointment that their posts stay behind. Coupled with the recent push to make mastodon.social the default for the iOS app… we need a way for users to move around SEAMLESSLY. We can make all the technical excuses we want, but if the process doesn’t work it’s not really account migration.
Until we have post support, we should probably say we have “social graph” migration, not “account migration,” or we’re really just lying and setting up people to be let down.
Towards the end of December 2019 I did a whole thread on Twitter, essentially reviewing the decade as ‘The Decade of Dishonest Technology’. It didn't start with that decade, and it hasn't stopped since, but it was the decade that got bought, and then sold everything about us under false pretenses, whether for state or corporate purposes.
It was the decade of technology that wasn't only biased, but straight up lied to us. Lies that most of us didn't really care about, as long as they didn't hit our own wallet.
Strap in, I am reviewing and updating the whole thread for the Mastodon Age.
There’s a lot of talk about the harm social media does to society, but I’d argue that mainstream media is a FAR larger problem.
Fox News may be the biggest example, but there’s a rot in the entire news media complex and as usual it comes down to money. Journalism has increasingly been replaced with “narratives” and both-sides rhetoric, chasing after clicks and views and advertising dollars.
This is how fascism takes root in the 21st century, through late stage capitalism.
I came across a neat browser extension today. It looks for "rel=me" links pointing to mastodon profiles, and puts it in a little list for you to review.
In other words, you visit a website, and if tells you if there are any mastodon accounts associated to the website.
You don't need no adblocker on Mastodon (or pretty much any fediverse product) because there's no ads.
And you don't need to block trackers or analytics or worry about information about you being sent to third parties.
If you check your adblocker you'll see 0 things. If you check for trackers for the usual suspects: Google, Facebook, etc, which are nearly ubiquitous on the web, you will not find them here at all.
Do you have any idea how rare that is nowadays, especially on a social media platform?
Checkout #Audon. It is a platform for real-time audio streaming that users of #Calckey#Pleroma and #Mastodon can log in in to with their existing accounts.
The one Mastodon feature I would like to see, more than the next 3 or 4 put together, would be: Don’t show me stuff I’ve already seen!
Or at least do it less. If something is getting boosted a lot, maybe a maximum of once a day tell me that it got 38 more boosts, including 11 of my follows. Even better, show it just once only.
Wow, my initial impression is excellent! Start at: phanpy.social
Includes everything I want, excludes lots of junk that I don’t. Easy on the eyes. I’m sure there will be flies in the ointment eventually, but seriously considering adopting this as my everyday web client.
