Bee Yarn Knee 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏
@pettter Yes, of course if you are lucky enough to have benevolent governance then problems are mitigated.
The design of the tool is not neutral though. A tool designed to give admins more power plays into the hands of bad actors, a tool designed to give end-users autonomy does the opposite.
Mastodon and the Fediverse fail this test badly, the tools are geeky and technical and the design doesn't allow for easy account migration.
This exaggerates the power imbalance.
Bee Yarn Knee 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏
@bjoern Isn't it? Is it also unrealistic to expect everyone to run their own word processor?
Now... which is more complicated, more lines of code, Mastodon or LibreOffice? The web browser we've both got installed is probably more complex than both of those.
The difference is mainly cultural, and how it's presented to the user.
The biggest difference between a client and a server, is that the server author hasn't yet made it easy to run.
Bee Yarn Knee 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏
@pettter @bjoern I am just full of surprises!
Also, that's what #Mailpile is.
Rysiekúr (old account)
@bjoern @HerraBRE well it kinda worked for BitTorrent. So why not other kinds of communication software?
Question is how do we make software like this.
On a completely different side of this spectrum, but I am completely blown away how amazingly well SecureDrop auto-updates. I set it up 9 months ago and did not have to touch it *once*. Updates install, it reboots, I am just notified about new versions running. *magic*
Chirp! is a social network. It runs on GNU social, version 2.0.1-beta0, available under the GNU Affero General Public License.
All Chirp! content and data are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.