Does the Fediverse give you hope?
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That’s a cool idea? How do we actually make that happen? Call up NPR?
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Why can’t I do a bit of both? Maybe start by voting with my money by supporting less unethical businesses.
Voting doesn't work, they control the candidates. Money and power is what people like that want, and they get that in exchange for playing along.
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What kinda show?
Calling it Fireside Fedi, where I just talk to folks around the Fediverse and get to know them. I have Gabe Kangas first tomorrow. He's the lead Dev of Owncast. Created a community !firesidefedi for my.world if you're interested. Fully Fedi powered. Livestream, Voss, socials, eventually setting up Fedi audio player as well.
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I mean it's really depressing even being in Europe honestly but at the same time it's a huge opportunity. It's time to take it
Let's show them how decentralization AND open source can be a new standard! I'm seeing the same trend in Linux too and this is so important as well.Also a lot of new projects to help decentralization are emerging, check https://spritely.institute/ which there's Christine Lemmer-Webber a co-author of the ActivityPub protocol
Yes! A bump for spritely!
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It's nice to see a significant portion of people (probably still not enough though) leave proprietary social media. Unfortunately, it took them extremely long to realize why that's a bad thing to use.
So that's one step in the right direction I guess.
On the other hand, there generally isn't much hope for humanity left because we haven't learned from past mistakes, haven't listened to science, and haven't ensured ourselves a decent future on this planet.
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Calling it Fireside Fedi, where I just talk to folks around the Fediverse and get to know them. I have Gabe Kangas first tomorrow. He's the lead Dev of Owncast. Created a community !firesidefedi for my.world if you're interested. Fully Fedi powered. Livestream, Voss, socials, eventually setting up Fedi audio player as well.
Cool idea!
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We don't have control of our world, we never did. Just distance yourself from the madness and embrace the good in the world. Focus on those things and it becomes your reality.
I think it's unhealthy to suggest we have no control over the world. Invidiually, yes we have very little influence, but collectively, we have tremendous power to influence the world. To believe otherwise simply ensures others who will act and believe they can influence things will dominate over those who believe they are impotent.
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Cool idea!
I hope. :-D. I'm no Dev, but I enjoy talking to people and I really believe In the Fediverse so just trying to contribute anyway I can to make it a more welcoming and interesting place.
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No, the Fediverse is full of conservatives. The technology is great, but the people here suck.
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Yeah, being banned because a mod didn't like you was the worst thing on Reddit. Especially if they modded multiple subs and banned you from a subreddit you never even came close to breaking the rules on. Some Reddit mods were just assholes.
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I'm curious about this too
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Yeah but there are a few notorious large instances that censor things that aren’t stated in their rules at all.
Like criticising china or russia will get you banned from the ML instances but their rules don’t mention that.
But the point is, you have freedom to choose whatever instance and thus whatever level of moderation you want. I'm not saying censorship is impossible here, that's just not the argument. The thing is, you aren't locked in to the control of a specific group/owner/company. If you don't like the way things are being run, skip to somewhere else, or alternatively make your own instance.
For people who value freedom the most, you can choose a platform with less moderation, and thereby accepting the risks that come with it. For people who value a more safe, stable and curated platform, choose one with more/stricter moderation.
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Having been around since the early days of identica/statusnet: no, not really.
It's always been small and a generally nice set of communities but it won't reach a large enough audience to matter. US (and to some degree) global politics are such a clusterfuck that it'll take more than some little servers with people discussing open source software and art or whatever to create substantial change.
that's not to say it's pointless. it's nice to have these little groups to focus on. it doesn't give me any hope but it does regulalry lift my spirits.
Bruh, I've been tracking it for years and the fediverse was dead before the Reddit exodus. Now I can have discussions about fantasy football without going on Reddit or X
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Do paste the definitions and sources here.
Help yourself.
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I get what you’re saying, but that train of thought isn’t very productive IMO. First, I agree with you on BlueSky, and I even tell that to all my friends switching to BlueSky, but I also believe it’s better than Twitter.
I think we should stop and ask ourselves why people are choosing BlueSky over Mastodon. How do we learn lessons from this switch to BlueSky and use what we learn to draw more people into the Fediverse?
I know I’m probably being idealistic, but I also think being pessimistic won’t increase our chances of winning in the end.
that train of thought isn’t very productive
It's not supposed to be productive, it's just an observation of reality and an answer to OP's question.
ask ourselves why people are choosing BlueSky over Mastodon
Because they're once again choosing convenience over user-centric platforms.
That and custom user-generated algorithms.
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Nothing gives me hope these are the darkest times ever
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No, the Fediverse is full of conservatives. The technology is great, but the people here suck.
Hey drag
Auth Left is still leftist even if they're anti lgbt -
It gives me hope, but hope for a slightly better future; not for a cure for fundamental ills of online communities.
