I don't think people are realising the danger the Fediverse is in.
The only thing stopping corporations and VCs taking over this place is that the Fediverse is spread out on many different servers, which makes it very difficult to purchase.
If most of the Fediverse ends up on mastodon.social, which is now a strong possibility, there will be nothing to stop most of it being sold to Musk or Zuckerberg or whoever.
The bigger mastodon.social becomes, the more likely a buyout is to happen.
For starters 'Fedi.Tips', I don't do #hellthreads, but just going by the timbre of your post I'm responding to here, I gotta say I'm pleasantly surprised.
I rarely boost anything of yours coz it usually sounds like you're a masto cheerleader instead of a Fediverse advocate - no offense, just my personal observation.
Second - it's exactly what Eugen wanted for his "Brand", and he's caused enormous damage by creating a deprecated, legacy monolithic silo.
Since some people have asked me, here's a quick thread on initial experience comparison between Bluesky and the fediverse. It's important to note that this comparison is somewhat absurd by default because Bluesky is still tiny & unproven, but there's interest so I'm happy to share what I've observed. Also, I don't get into protocol differences because honestly who cares. So:
Well, okay then. It's a "so", I guess. "Nothing to see then folks" kinda thing is what I'm coming away with then.
Even a sentence or two would have helped instead of s single word.
Not a big optimist here with respect to ATP after hacking on its previous ADX but personally, I would have given it at least a twenty word review lolz.
Yet another mastodon hellthread. Those things always come in out of chronological order for me since mastodon orders then by arrival time and not timestamp anyway.
Thanks again for the (chronologically in order) screenie 👍
Two months ago, Dylan Molina was sentenced to 15yrs in prison. On 27 Nov 2021 he ran a red light and t-boned a car with a family of 4 inside, seriously injuring everyone and killing the dad - Euless Texas PD Det. Alex Cervantes.
Molina was driving a Jeep Wrangler with a blood alcohol content twice the legal limit. Cervantes was with his wife and kids, he was pronounced dead at the scene.
I know i don't normally post shit like that but when you're a parent it doesn't matter how old your kids are you think about this shit happening so the time and want to protect them.
Some thing's though, cannot be prepared for.
Be careful out there folks. The world is harsh and there's no such thing as a safe space.
Don't delude yourself and suggested look both ways before crossing - you can be right, and you can bet dead right - green doesn't mean go without looking first.
I'm pretty sure that the #Fediverse is one of the first social networks I've been on that didn't ever ask me to betray any of the people in my address book.