Yeah, Meta getting in on #activitypub has rather permanently soured me on the protocol.
IMO, #mastodon is only for emphemeral chatter and shitposting now, and my current server rather explicitly frowns upon the latter with their updated COC.
Yeah, Meta getting in on #activitypub has rather permanently soured me on the protocol.
IMO, #mastodon is only for emphemeral chatter and shitposting now, and my current server rather explicitly frowns upon the latter with their updated COC.
@onepict "My socialization is different from yours."
You and about 8 billion other people's.
The adults in my life seemed to have decided that since I had taught myself to read as a toddler, I could figure everything else out on my own, too.
The upside is that I don't feel obligated to perform hegemonic masculinity. You've already seen the downside; without a sense of community, appeals to the "common good" fall flat.
I find myself more responsive to appeals to enlightened self-interest.
@onepict Since the "common good" is so often used to deny individual liberty, I look askance at anybody who insists that I yield to their idea of the "common good", because while the needs of the many often outweigh those of the few, they should not outweigh the rights of an individual.
As far as I'm concerned, the "common good" is for progressives what "think of the children" is for conservatives. It's nothing but a fig leaf for an ulterior motive to me.
This is your occasional reminder that you can have a social web without #activitypub.
People were doing it on #Geocities in 1996, and they didn't have #Google or #RSS, either.
Hell, the social internet predates all this bullshit, too, as bix points out in this post.
Some folks have gotten themselves together as something they’re calling the Social Web Foundation, and I’ll cut to the chase: this is an attempt by ActivityPub partisans to rebrand the...
Bix Dot Blog (bix.blog)
They have my condolences for having drawn the attention of #HackerNews and #Lemmy; they're very silly places, especially HN, which is basically College Republicans who majored in CS at Stanford.
@KydiaMusic I used to have one of those. But every once in a while I break a dish while washing it.
@molly0xfff In my case, it's not hope but defiance. I don't believe my website counts for much, or that independent operators alone can break the spell of network effects and liberate people who prefer their digital chains, but the power of Satan compels me to press on regardless; every day my website stays up is itself a small victory.