fedi

@fedi@masto.ai

I post mostly about the fediverse. Formerly on Mastodon.Technology

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fosstodon, to random
@fosstodon@fosstodon.org avatar

Here's our position on the "Facebook joining the Fedi" mess...

https://hub.fosstodon.org/facebook-fosstodon-fedi

fedi,

@happyborg

List of instances that will be blocking Facebook's fedi servers:

https://fedipact.online/

kissane, to random
@kissane@mstdn.social avatar

This is more semi-meta, so do what you will with that, but I want to explicitly tie together two conversational threads from yesterday:

  1. I think the structure of Mastodon really amps rumors and misinfo because the mechanisms we use elsewhere to pass around and find corrections (visible replies, quote-posts, search) don't work here.

  2. Instance admin politics are rarely discussed in a public, easily re-findable place—that, too, fuels the rumor-mill, as we saw re: Meta meeting discussions.

fedi,

@kissane

  1. I've seen the exact opposite view promoted within the fediverse for the past 5 years: that its design is anti-viral, that it does not provide a good space for the dissemination of disinfo, and from my own partial view of the fediverse I would agree that it does not appear to do so.

The fediverse of the past 6 months is much bigger so it is possible it has changed.

[Facebook NDAs are a recipe for rumour; fedizens have a right to speculate about what may be happening.]

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fedi,

@14specks
the person behind the feditips mastodon account is, I am fairly sure a different person. But it is a pseudonymous account, so in theory it could be.

[Posted from Mastodon]

atomicpoet, to fediverse

Wow! Yet again, added 100,000 accounts within 24 hours!

And it's about to reach 500,000 users!

What's most impressive about this? It's managed to do this without any assistance from the tech press -- with zero Silicon Valley-style hype!

Source: https://fedidb.org/software

fedi,

@selea @atomicpoet
@dansup

Here is a link about spam sign-ups to lemmies which could be causing pollution of statistics, including on fedidb.

https://lemm.ee/post/177673

mastodonmigration, to Futurology
@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online avatar

Subject: What's going on with Meta?

To: @Gargron, @ruud, @jerry, @supernovae, @stux, @trumpet, @kev and other large instance admins

Rumors are tearing this place apart out here about secret deals with . The latest is that Meta has held meetings with some of you and they will federate with large instances under contracts providing financial support (1) (2).

This is a time for leadership, not silence. Please, what's going on?

(1) https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/110598855375585873
(2) https://mastodon.social/@alexeheath/110596207691212890

fedi,

@rysiek o.k. to dm you on this

fedi,

@Kaldo it was put together by VantaBlack. I'm fairly sure most of the people who signed up to it do take it seriously.

fedi,

@Kaldo

'no proof anyone signed anything'
I don't know exactly what kind of proof you expect.

I agree that it could be more clearly explained. There was a fair bit of discussion on 'Mastodon' about it so some of that context might not be clear.

Re the donation links. It is quite common for people who show up on the fediverse and put in some work to ask for donations.

I mean it is a attempt to rally community to a cause but it was put together by one person off their own bat.

kushal, to RedHat
@kushal@toots.dgplug.org avatar

This is not the I grew up with.

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-commitment-open-source-response-gitcentosorg-changes

fedi,

@kushal they kept the branding after being bought by IBM. Rocky Linux seems to be a good replacement.

fedi, to reddit

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.

https://reddark.untone.uk/

further links in reply....

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fedi, to kbin

The massive growth of the threadiverse shows no sign of slowing down:

https://lemmy.world/post/632941

fedi, to Facebook

Fosstodon admin Kev turned down Facebook's offer of a 'roundtable' meeting.

Discussion thread on lemmy:

https://beehaw.org/post/715934

Kev's original post: https://fosstodon.org/@kev/110592625692688836

fedi, to fediverse

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.

fedi, to random

Seeing a thread dissing open source source software is strange.

It's the single most important pillar holding back the complete domination by Big Tech over the average person's tech environment.

In the absence of meaningful regulation of Big Tech it might be the only pillar.

Without free and open source software the 98% hold Big Tech has would be 100%.

fedi, to bluesky

The notion of being promoted as a benevolent, open, decentralised standard for the social web never did add up:

  • it was funded by Twitter which stands to lose a 44Bn market share if an open, decentralised alternative thrives

  • it dilutes an already existing and thriving incumbent: the fediverse (which uses a different protocol: ActivityPub)

  • it was secretive about its project, the exact opposite of what an open standard requires

Conclusion: Bluesky is probably a sabotage effort

fedi, to random

Term of the day

Mastodon H.O.A.

noun. pejorative(negative)

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.

Mastodon Homeowners Association.

fedi, to fediverse

Interested in setting up your own lemmy?

Managed lemmy hosting:
https://elest.io/open-source/lemmy

fedi, to random

One way to prevent undue control of social media by even relatively friendly operators (Mastodon Gmbh, ahem) is to normalise not using the word 'Mastodon' to refer to the microblogging part of the fediverse (even if it is the majority software). Fediverse refers to the entire ecosystem( microblogging, peertube, pixelfed etc) and is neutral.

But as of now there is no neutral term widely used to refer to just the microblogging part.

Possibilities:

microshpere,
microblogosphere?
lakestream?

fedi, to random

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.

Maybe sabotage.

fedi,

@chiefgyk3d I think it is pretty clear we are not going to agree on this.

fedi,

@chiefgyk3d So for the opportunity to attract a million or two million people Facebook connects their network of 2 billion people to the ActivityPub network. Seems to me the danger of some of their 2 billion jumping ship far outweighs the opportunity cost.

fedi,

@chiefgyk3d Sure the average internet user has a certain 'learned helplessness'. But they do, mostly, have the ability to navigate to a URL, choose a username, enter an email address, open their email, click on an activation link, return to URL and start pressing partly familiar, partly new buttons on a slightly different user interface. The idea of tech skills being required to use 'Mastodon' is vastly over-promoted.

fedi,

@chiefgyk3d I am understanding what you are saying and I disagree. I posted specific steps to opening a typical social network account. I believe the average internet user can achieve these steps. Which step do you not believe they can achieve or do you just believe they can't string 5 simple steps together.

fedi,

@chiefgyk3d this goes back to the 'learned helplessness' I referenced earlier. It probably also ties in with deliberate confusing statements disseminated to confuse people. I wonder who promoted them sarcasm.

Amazing how people can choose a restaurant from hundreds but some would have you believe choosing a fediverse instance is vastly complicated.

rmdes, to fediverse
@rmdes@mstdn.social avatar

Thinking about Hacker News but sprinkled with

imagine being able to reply and participate to any post from the and with have fediverse comments mingled with native HN activity.

+ and we shift the balance back in the open web.

fedi,

@rmdes I don't think there's any doubt but that the 'threadiverse' could eat into Hackernews ' market share. They are very similar.

There are a few lemmies which currently occupy a similar space including

https://programming.dev

fedi, to random

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..

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