A Request to the Fediverse Community

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It will get better with the massive bans

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I jumped on board with the reddit API fiasco. I use Sync primarily since I'm familiar with the format and I browse and post often.

I think one problem is that it's confusing to your average Joe. I honestly still don't quite understand how it works. I see posts like .ml and .world and I have no idea what they are even though I've been here a while.

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Exactly. That's the main barrier I think

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Recently I've been thinking about what the internet was like in the 90s. Back when there was no social media. Maybe we should all return to forums and BBSs.

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I see posts like .ml and .world and I have no idea what they are even though I’ve been here a while.

In a group email, you might see people from Gmail and Outlook as recipients. It doesn't really matter that everyone, everyone can still see the emails and send them to each other.

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There's this thing called "Global Switch Day" that I'd like people to talk more about. It does not seem to be anything official, but I like to think that anything potentially bringing more people to the Fediverse deserves a bit of support. Also I've just done a small write-up on the things that might keep people from joining and/or staying with the Fediverse. I did the most 90s thing imaginable and posted it on my personal blog.

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This and the level of free speech that came with it is really needed right now. I don't mean free speech in a go tell someone you disagree with to fuck their aunt type of way. I mean having real deep hard conversations about organizing and enabling movements. It feels like the Internet is scared of that because of monetization and content policies have chopped the balls off of any form of organization or resistance. Like there's so much shit 8 wish I could say but some mod policy kills it with a pinned post at the top of the comment section before I can even begin typing out my thoughts.

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Regulation, of course. Unlabeled bot on your platform? $100,000 fine. We're not completely helpless.

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It's this the law or something you'd hope would happen?

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It's a suggested solution

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How would they police it?

How would anyone know who's a bot?

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Prove it or you get a fine. Where the political will is there, this is all easy-peasy.

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Prove what? That they're bots, you mean companies would have to just admit it?

If there were a fine I think it would put some people off, or they would just try harder to hide it.

The whole point is that bots are hard to discover. If companies don't want to state that they use bots, I don't know how they will know who is using bots.

It seems like you're just counting on people being honest or some how finding out. And I don't know how they will find out or even if they can unless someone in the company whistle blows

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In that case let's just give up because obviously it will all be far too hard.

You are underestimating the resources that big companies already devote to complying with regulations and avoiding fines. To stipulate that every non-human voice on a social platform must be labeled as such or else, right now, that regulation does not even exist. It's an obvious place to start and I am not the first person to say this.

Anyway, the conversation has moved on here, nobody else is listening, that's enough from me. Good night.

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That's the point. It will be secret companies trying to persuade the general population.

I'm different companies, maybe out of jurisdiction.

I just don't know i think we've crossed the Rubicon. It's out the box now.

Maybe with worldcoin, we can scan retina's and provide proof of humanity.

Otherwise. I think it's pretty much really hard to control. And people/companies will get some regulations. Might hamper it a bit. But won't stop it. Ie it could be from Russia or China. So it would only work if all cooperated and banned bot accounts. Which seems unlikely

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If anyone can help, what's the "shit just works" pixelfed version? I joined the biggest one but don't want to give one instance too much power.
I tried to join the 5th or 6th largest but the buttons to sign up wouldn't work

sircac

The first step is to overcome the dependence of the common forum places, being able to renounce to them, remove your profile and learn to enjoy your life without them… only then you can happily drift into a less crowded and active community for ocasional wonders and quality instead of the saturation of engagement that “that” centralised social media offers, the peer pressure to be part of the main stream…