atomicpoet

@atomicpoet@mastodon.social

Product, QA & marketing @ #GreatApe

I'm searchable.

Putting the sauce in awesome.

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Gargron, to random
@Gargron@mastodon.social avatar

If Meta is really working on a new ActivityPub-powered social network, I see it as a very positive signal overall--my personal feelings towards Meta notwithstanding. For one, it's validation for our entire ecosystem from the biggest player. It also tells me that they don't see themselves as strong enough to keep users locked inside their walled garden anymore. It means the tide is really turning for interoperable social media, and that's always been the goal.

atomicpoet,

@Gargron My thoughts exactly. They see the future and they know it's not walled gardens.

More to the point, just because they're Meta doesn't mean they'll be successful.

Kodak was an early adopter of digital cameras, but they went bankrupt.

Why? Because they just couldn't leave film photography behind.

atomicpoet,

@Gargron All of Facebook's recent successes aren't a result of innovation. Any recent success they have is because they either acquired or copied the competition.

Meta can't acquire the Fediverse. Therefore they copy.

But now they're on our terrain, and the game has changed. They don't get to set the rules anymore 🙂

atomicpoet, to fediverse

😮

Wait. People are saying Meta's decentralized app will be powered by , and will interoperate with Mastodon.

On top of it, it will be Instagram-branded.

Surprising. But again, I'll believe it when I see it.

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/startup/meta-mulls-a-twitter-competitor-codenamed-p92-that-will-be-interoperable-with-mastodon-10223961.html

@fediversenews

atomicpoet,

Wow. We're really going to see a Fediverse dogpile soon.

It doesn't matter if Meta never does this decentralized social network and integrates ActivityPub.

The point is enough developers will think Meta will do this -- and this is going to cause an avalanche of development.

Not all these developers will believe in decentralization. They'll be opportunists through and through.

atomicpoet,

I'm no fool. Meta is definitely going to try to "embrace, extend, and extinguish" if they actually follow through on a decentralized social network.

In my view, they're no different from Cloudflare.

But you know what we just caused them to do? Acknowledge the Fediverse.

Think about that.

atomicpoet,

In the meantime, this Meta adventure with decentralized social networks socially validates everything I've been doing for the past 5 years.

😁

Seriously, the pendulum has officially swung in my direction!

atomicpoet,

Mark Zuckerberg will be in a world of hurt if he thinks the Fediverse is anything like the Metaverse -- and he can just waltz in with one instance, taking all the real estate.

LMAO!

If Meta tries to be Meta -- and they'll try! -- that will be a lesson for the textbooks!

atomicpoet,

What do you want to bet that Tumblr, Flickr, and Post are going to want to get the drop on Meta beforehand?

🤣

atomicpoet,

What all these Johnny-Come-Latelys will need to understand:

  • The Fediverse isn't a client
  • The Fediverse isn't Mastodon
  • The Fediverse isn't ActivityPub

The Fediverse is an entire ecosystem that is as revolutionary as the web itself.

While the web connects servers, the Fediverse does something more drastic: it connects people!

This will change the Internet forever, and if Meta goes through with this, it spells their doom.

atomicpoet,

LOL! Meta exists to track people. That's their whole game. If they can't track people, why do they even exist?

If they create a decentralized social network that uses ActivityPub and is compatible with Mastodon, how are they going to monetize?

Will they convince every owner of an instance to install a tracker so Meta can feed people ads?

😆

Not if I can run my own instance for $5/month.

atomicpoet, to random

I actually predicted this last week!

Now that outages have massively increased, Elon Musk pronounces Twitter's old code is a mess that can't be saved -- and there will be a re-write:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1632810081497513993?cxt=HHwWkoCw1ceH9KgtAAAA

This is Stage 3 of Twitter's demise.

Now pay attention to the next stages.

It will be awhile before Twitter 3.0 will arrive. When it arrives, it won't be "real" Twitter.

See: https://mastodon.social/@atomicpoet/109949723816737406

See screenshots.

Prediction for Twitter's demise: 1. Twitter gets harder to maintain 2. Outages increase from once a week to near daily 3. Elon Musk pronounces that Twitter's old code is a mess that can't be saved, and he promises Twitter 3.0 -- which will be better in all ways from the old Twitter 4. A year later, Twitter 3.0 is released, and it's not like "real" Twitter -- but it's a pay-to-play platform 5. People finally realize "old" Twitter is not coming back, and go elsewhere -- probably to Mastodon

atomicpoet,

People are speculating that Twitter 3.0 will just be a Mastodon instance.

That's simply not plausible.

It is extremely unlikely that ~250M users can migrate to a single Mastodon instance -- all while preserving data.

Social media is not like Lego with interchangeable parts.

atomicpoet, to random

Don't like strangers busting into your mentions to give unsolicited opinions?

This could be solved if the Fediverse had better comment controls.

You should be able to make a read-only post if you want.

And you should be able to make a public post that's only writeable to followers.

You should also be able to lock a thread if it becomes a vector for abuse.

atomicpoet, to random

Nostr is definitely not easier to use than the Fediverse.

If you think picking a server is hard, try saving a public and private key—and then using those keys when using a different client.

atomicpoet,

The other misconception about Nostr is that moderation is not possible.

Completely untrue.

You can report people for illegal content or spam or other abuse.

And whoever runs the relays can moderate based on those reports.

atomicpoet,

It also seems to me that folks from some of the troublesome Fediverse instances are migrating to Nostr.

Many of them have been so frustrated by Fediblock, they believe Nostr is the answer to their problems.

I suspect many of them might make Nostr their permanent homes.

atomicpoet,

I'll say this about Nostr: it's more legit than Towns.

atomicpoet,

@osma Until I see an active Bluesky server in the wild, I consider it vaporware.

atomicpoet, to fediversenews

Opt-in search of the Fediverse was just rolled out. Here it is:

http://tootfinder.ch/

Search has traditionally been very controversial on the Fediverse, but let's see how opt-in works.

Right now, this is a proof-of-concept and very bare bones -- but we'll see if it's embraced by everyone.

See screenshot.

@fediversenews

atomicpoet, to random

Here's a preview of , a fully-managed Fediverse hosting service that @reiver and I are building.

As you can see, you'll be able to select your Fediverse community server based on:

  • Micro Blogging
  • Macro Blogging
  • Forums
  • Image Posting
  • Video Posting
  • Media Posting
  • Social Coding

@fediversenews

mekkaokereke, to random
@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io avatar

Happy !

I will get to Black history. For now, I'm still on white US history.

Q: Why is so much Black music about violence and misogyny? I'm not racist, but I think Black culture is just more violent. Why does it seem that way?

A: Racism. Rap, trap, and drill, are only the most popular genres of Black music listened to by white people. The most popular among Black folk is R&B, almost 2X as popular. Violent rap is mostly for y'all.🤷🏿‍♂️

https://www.statista.com/statistics/945163/leading-music-genres-african-american/

atomicpoet,

@mekkaokereke Thank you for this outstanding thread.

I've heard artists like Tyler the Creator say they're continuously pigeonholed into "rap" when what they intended to make was pop music.

As far as I'm concerned, so-called "rock" music is just R&B.

Tina Turner is the Queen of Rock. Not of R&B—but rock. It's right there on her Wikipedia bio.

atomicpoet, to random

Reddit may be planning an IPO this year!

This is all the more reason we need to support Lemmy as an alternative to Reddit.

And while we're at it, we need more groups on the Fediverse!

https://www.reuters.com/technology/reddit-aims-ipo-second-half-2023-information-2023-02-14/

atomicpoet, to random

Okay, people need to understand that just because search works a certain way on Mastodon doesn't mean it works the same way across the Fediverse.

Here's three examples from:

  1. Calckey
  2. Pleroma
  3. Friendica

I did a search for "cow".

Notice this search term has no hashtag.

Also I'm getting results from people that I don't follow.

Just because you post FROM Mastodon doesn't mean that your posts are not discoverable elsewhere.

Search for "cow" from Calckey
Search for "cow" on Pleroma.

atomicpoet, to random

My problem with Twitter isn't that a particular billionaire owns it.

It's that a billionaire can own Twitter.

atomicpoet,

Internet services owned by billionaires:

  1. Twitter
  2. Facebook
  3. Instagram
  4. TikTok
  5. Snapchat

Internet services not owned by billionaires:

  1. Email
  2. IRC
  3. BitTorrent
  4. RSS
  5. HTTP

So don’t tell me that walled gardens are inevitable and we should just accept surveillance capitalism as the price of doing business.

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