Me, feeding 2 people and 2 cats on a 60k EUR salary without benefits (because technically self-employed), reading those comments that claim a 501(c)(3) is some kind of nefarious scheme to hide money 😐
@chriswho@QueenieBeanie@Gargron It’s not a strawman. People don’t want him to get paid. They don’t donate enough and anytime earning money comes up people scream “capitalism” The world doesn’t run on free despite what this place likes to act like. A lot of people that came to fedi are also serial harassers that got kicked off of Big Social
I'm almost tempted to go to Mastodon's GitHub repository and submit a feature request for an instance type allowlist/blocklist. The blocklist would exclude all instances of a certain type (project). The allowlist would only allow such.
I'd explicitly state that the allowlist would make it possible to defederate everything that isn't Mastodon.
@jupiter_rowland@jrp I don’t even think it’s them. It’s the early Mastodon users. Those that wanted harm to come to Ryan for daring to bridge Bluesky to Mastodon. Those falsely stating they only consented to Mastodon and ActivityPub, failing to realise there’s 14-17 bridges and protocols that make up the Fediverse.
Can someone tell me why and how they view instances as a #community ? What makes them communities? I see people upset at #Bluesky empowering individuals/users why is that problematic? #Askfedi#fediverse
@BeAware I understand that but that doesn’t mean that have to be communities. I’m just weary of situations that resemble Big Social but because people can use a different instance and or platform (which is a huge difference) people act as if the behaviour and most of the dynamics aren’t similar
Yeah, I often find the “reasoning” to be lacking, nonsensical and often hypocritical. People feel fedi is somehow best suited for communities, I don’t see how.
A few influencers, active both on the “regular” Fediverse and Threads, have noted that having a Threads account hasn’t given them a bigger audience even though Threads has a bigger userbase than (for example) Mastodon.
Quite the opposite. There’s more visibility here. People are more likely to interact with your posts. It’s easier to gain followers as well.
None of this surprises me. There’s always been two types of people who build content for social media: those who engage with people, and those who game algorithms.
I do believe there’s a need for algorithmic choice in fedi. Not just “algorithms bad” “ you are your own algorithm” I’m working on a blogpost but in short people like content that’s curated for them. Also, safety. Algorithms are tuned to also avoid a lot of the illegal content.
@atomicpoet Yes, Sora does algorithms very well. Memory will use a similar model but more user driven. I agree with your point about gaming the system bur I believe those people that attempt to do that on fedi would be blocked far and wide. Plus, of there’s algorithmic choice it’s not like everyone would come into contact with that persons posts
To me integrity is huge and I view talk as cheap. If you are going out of your way to loudly talk about #Threads and how horrible #Meta is then go all of the way. Scolding people and pushing people to block Threads is cheap if you’re not willing to block those federating with Threads. I see people attempting to harass Eugen for his instances federating with Threads and tell him he aligning himself with a company guilty of genocide. Why not block him & others for being guilty by association? Many of the loud ones won’t because they can’t get over the slight discomfort & inconvenience of cutting off large parts of the networks. Personally, I find it hard to respect such opinions. When people protest it’s for change and they don’t back out due to discomfort and inconveniences. To be clear, my focus isn’t on those simply making the choice to defederate or not, it’s those being very forceful and vocal on either side of the fence. #Mastodon#Fediverse#OpenSocialWeb
@thisismissem@usagi@deadsuperhero@dansup I’d say it is not entirely out of scope and one that would benefit admins/mods and devs. A user needs assessment would be great!
I can't wait to not be effected AT ALL by whatever Meta decides to do with Threads Federation...
It just won't effect me or the way I use Fedi one bit.
Let them adopt Fedi features and then turn off federation....who cares? It'll be their loss...🤷♂️I'll federate till they give me a reason not to. And when they do, it won't bother nor effect me in any way.
That's the beauty of Fedi. Them federating or not changes nothing about how I use Fedi.
One thing I'd really love to see as a feature for most #Fediverse platforms: auto-boost specific accounts.
It would be great if my general social account automatically shared Pixelfed pictures and PeerTube videos and Funkwhale music and WordPress blog posts automatically.
I know Hubzilla and probably Streams have that. It's a good feature.
@Prainbow That’s not true. It’s only inclusion for mostly white people and those that are left and centre left leaning. Go do research and speak to Black and Brown folk harmed by Mastodon. It wasn’t so welcoming and inclusive for them
Okay #Fediverse. This whole fiasco with let’s just keep the name disclosed, that chooses to kick instances out that choose not to defederated with Threads is getting to me.
So myself and @cliffwade are making a list on our Wiki of instance that both federate and defederate from Threads. We feel people so have the choice themselves and not have someone else choose for them.
@verge Great episode! Truly embarrassing regarding the culture regarding the #BridgyFed mention. You would hope that adults could handle and behave themselves better, oh well.
@BeAware@verge Exactly 😅 This place can be so fraudulent. Much nicer and welcoming my ass, only if you assimilate and capitulate. Also, if they align politically or shut up about politics. This place has chased and silenced devs and Black & Brown people. Yet people have the nerve to be mad that #Bluesky “reinvented the wheel” by going with their own protocol. People don’t want to deal with culture debt nor be harassed for building tools.
