fedi

@fedi@masto.ai

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

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aral, to random
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I love it. There’s a poll ongoing about whether folks would ban a Meta (Instagram/Facebook) instance and people are like “well, I’d give them the benefit of the doubt.”

I really have no words.

Is it learned helplessness? Stockholm Syndrome? Masochism? Something else?

I just don‘t get it.

fedi,

@aral Obviously Facebook can't be trusted Aral.

But I don't think it is necessarily as simple a calculation as you are making it out to be.

If the fediverse is now growing powerful enough to induce actions from the once all powerful big tech companies then that indicates that the tectonic plates of the internet are moving.

No matter how distrusted Facebook are the fediverse should be trying to facilitate the onboarding of their billion? 'users' into the fediverse.

Many ways to do that.

fedi, to internet

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.

Caveat Emptor. Buyer beware.

fedi,

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, 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?

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