Fedizen ⁂ Fediverse NewsJun 24, 2025

The Fediverse, a network of independently run servers using the ActivityPub protocol, is #segmented by #serverblocks.

🚧 These #blocks, often based on imported #blocklists, create #echochambers and hinder message threads.

🏔️ While #decentralisation is a goal, the Fediverse’s current state, with heavy-handed #moderation and #serverblocking, undermines this principle.

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The Broken Fediverse

When Elon Musk originally bought Twitter, a number of people moved over to Mastodon. There were a lot of misunderstandings around how Mastodon works....

Gerrit Eicker 🇪🇺🇺🇦Nov 18, 2022
Is #serverblocking the only answer of the #Fediverse? /cc @Felicea @oliverg @ton »Journalists want to re-create Twitter on Mastodon. Mastodon is not into it.« https://www.cjr.org/analysis/journalists-want-to-recreate-twitter-on-mastodon-mastodon-is-not-into-it.php
Journalists want to re-create Twitter on Mastodon. Mastodon is not into it.

<p>Ever since Elon Musk completed his $45 billion takeover of Twitter last month, there has been a steady stream of users, including a number of journalists, signing up for Mastodon, an open-source alternative. No one controls Mastodon—or rather, everyone controls their own version of it. There are thousands of servers running the software, and each […]</p>

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