The Verge article extolling the #Fediverse. I personally think the writer has the wrong point. #Facebook isn't good. Its attraction is "everybody I know is on Facebook" and not any of its half-baked features. Therefore, multiprotocol / multi-network federated social is important to dethroning #corpocentric #socnets like XTwitter ( #x.com / #twitter ) and Meta's Facebook & #Instagram.
I feel this writer's exuberence will turn out to be fantasy, mostly because of misunderstanding what keeps people in the walled gardens and what it will take to free them.
The network effect for #ActivityPub is gaining some serious momentum right now. As more services adopt the protocol, more people, more communities and more content are added to the network making it increasingly more valuable for everyone. This will only accelerate in the coming months as Threads, Wordpress, Tumblr, Flipboard and others federate.
We're still in early innings but there's no way to put this genie back in the bottle. The open social Web / the #Fediverse is going to be huge.
Here's a heads up for #mastodon and other #fediverse users who reply to #wordpress blogs using the ActivityPub plugin.
The comments you publish from your fediverse accounts will appear on those blogs (or - at the very least - in the admin dashboard's "Comments" section where they must be approved).
If anyone replies to you on the blog, those reply comments will -NOT- be federated, so you'll have to visit the blogs to see if anyone replied to you.
And by the same token, if someone in the fediverse replies to your in-fediverse comment, the blog owners will not see your fediverse-to-fediverse followup.
@fu I don't know much about #Gitcoin, but I'm sure the anti #cryptocurrency crusaders throughout the #Fediverse and in other #FOSS contexts are going to try to roast #Tor over the hottest flames of hell.
If this gets revised, I hope developers consider what exactly "block", "mute", "silence", and so on mean in current implementations (and consider that some have different terminology for similar functionality) and only then decide what curation & protection functionality is needed and sensible in a federated and / or peer-to-peer network.
Top 5 things I love about Mastodon (there are easily top 100 things, but here's five):
1. Engaging, interesting people and discussions 2. Amazing open source, server and dev community 3. Fast paced infrastructure that just works, has solid standing and is straightforward to scale up 4. Safe and supporting space 5. Extremely useful features like timed muting, versatile filters, content warnings and if something is missing like extended open text search or anything really, I can code and make it happen on my server.
I'm filled with love. Never felt this way before on any social media. Thank you for being part of this. :meowmeltcry: :blobheartcat: #Mastodon#Fediverse
The Iris #Nostr client on #Android now has a "block and mute" function, so I've started using that against the #spambots.
Nostr has some great ideas that are way beyond what either #OStatus or #ActivityPub branches of the #Fediverse are doing, but the spam and the fact that there's a really big #Bitcoin "Maxi" faction there are chasing regular people away.
#Meta / #Facebook is building a #Twitter clone under their #Instagram brand. Apparently, there's discussion of various #ActivityPub #Fediverse projects' lead developers signing an NDA and having discussions with them.
The participants appear to be deleting evidence.
I'm not spinning a conspiracy theory. I just don't think Gargron or Dansup have any idea what kinds of restrictions an NDA can contain. They risk long-term damage to their projects and some impact on their careers.
@kissane@mstdn.social Thank you for bringing this to light. This is one of the reasons having QT’s (actual qt‘s and not a work-a-round) is and has been helpful for BIPOC on the bird app forever. It highlights bad actors, allows the community to come to the defense and should make it more noticeable to mods. It’s stuff like this why I speak out daily about the gatekeeping and HOA attitude. You’re so right how they talk down on big social but then want to control peoples experiences here in the #Fediverse being told to block is not enough. #Mastodon needs to do better as do we all
That seems like instance admins are too powerful. This is just a guess, but each community probably has a home instance. That instance's admin could then ban the community or ban people from joining / interacting with that community, even if they're on another instance.
Likely the issue comes from everyone (users and communities) piling onto lemmy.ml.
That said, it has been a frequent complaint that #Fediverse admins have too much power. Networks like #Nostr attempt to remove or dilute such power.