busybodies about the fediverse who stick their nose into other people's business, tell people who they shouldn't talk to and what phrases, terminology are unacceptable.
notorious for refusing to let bygones be bygones and dredge up irrelevancies from years ago.
What is interesting about lemmy is that you can start a thread on a different server. You can't follow people on lemmy, just communities. It seems that this model results in a network with topics are a central feature whereas on Mastodon the central feature is the individual account.
I've always found the microverse(mastodon) to be a poor place for discussions; they tend to be way to disjointed, spread out.
The character limit on posts on most Mastodon servers also results in people limiting..
I'm becoming more suspicious of Facebook's project to integrate a new service into the fediverse.
It makes absolutely no sense.
An open 'social network protocol' and its implementaions are a threat to multi-billion companies like Facebook who absolutely need to retain tight control over their user base to extract profits.
Once plugged in the danger of their user base 'escaping' through the new connection is large.
But I still can't quite pin down why they are doing it.
@fedi serious question do you work with end users often or no? It’s not learned helplessness, they don’t care. It’s one more thing to deal with they simply don’t care about and to them Facebook is working already. Many have a “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” mentality.
As thousands of mods defy reddit and keep their subreddits dark reddit appear to be taking substantial actions with reports of mods being stripped of their positions and subreddits handed to more compliant mods.
As long as you are on reddit, reddit will always control the 'root' account.
/r/piracy and /r/startrek which famously opened lemmies have now been co-erced into opening back up.
I'm becoming more convinced that there is a 'gap in the market' for a #linux distro to grab maybe 50 million desktops or more from MS/Apple.
If it adheres to the following:
free to download - revenue could be from cloud storage, email, tech support for companies etc.
consistency - desktop OSes in the 2020s don't need to change every few months - pick a set of standards and stick to them. eg: gnome, standard package manager etc
vastly reduced choice of software - this is key ....
@fedi I think the single biggest hurdle to Linux on the desktop is that most people don’t really care that much about operating systems, if they even know what an «operating system» is. The computer literacy of the average person is disturbingly low. People use what comes with their computer, it’s like an integral, irreplaceable part of the machine to them.
Sry @fedi but your ideas have ben tried over and over in the past. Most people just dont care and think you are stupid if you don't do what everyone™ does.
General reminder that in a network of over a million people defederation between instances is a 'natural' way for the network to let off steam and self-organise. It is not inherently bad - far from it.
Lumping too many people into an unstructured mess is a recipe for an upleasant environment.
Defederations can be reversed, back channels can be established etc.
If Bluesky was a benevolent initiative they would have spent some small part of their many millions over the past 3 years engaging in meaningful dialogue with the world's foremost decentralised social network: the fediverse. They didn't do that.
They did try to poach some key figures from fedi's tech pool though, no doubt offering salaries well above what most here earn.
Which is reminiscent of another actor with deep pockets which conducted studies of the fediverse: the EU. They funded Eunomia to the tune of many millions whilst communicating effectively zero with the wider fediverse.
If they do actually want Europe to become a tech player on the global stage they have an open goal with the fediverse: a much better model to the 'walled garden' model promoted from Silicon Valley. A small percentage of the EU's budget could transform the fediverse and the web.
@fedi I’m not so concerned about a lack of conversation, as such. I would expect them to have studied the core base and poured over how it hangs together and learned from it, but I’m not so sure we should be arrogant enough to put Fedi on a pedestal of being the pinnacle of decentralisation.
It is, by a country mile, the best thing we have going right now. But that doesn’t mean something else can’t be better.