For the first time ever, I’m torn about whether I should stay on mastodon.social.
Being here has given me a voice I’ve never had, to talk about a topic that I feel strongly about, and I feel I’ve made the world a slightly different place.
But I also wonder if mastodon.social is becoming even more hostile to the rest of the Fediverse.
Should I stay and fight? Or is this a lost cause?
I talk to lots of devs, server admins, and users—and the trend has been that Mastodon’s BDFL approach is actively harming the rest of the Fediverse.
Community safety features haven’t been implemented in years.
Aspects of ActivityPub aren’t utilized or they’re kneecapped even though they’ve been present since the very beginning.
Things that are possible elsewhere on the Fediverse aren’t possible on Mastodon.
Here’s what especially bothers me.
Nomadic identity already exists on the Fediverse. @evan, who co-authored ActivityPub, has said it is possible.
@mike has made a protocol that does nomadic identity, and he’s building a Fediverse Identity Manager too.
#Calckey allows you to not just migrate but import your posts.
I wouldn’t mind mastodon.social being the default server if Mastodon has nomadic identity.
But it doesn’t.
On this point, even #Bluesky has an advantage here.
@atomicpoet @evan @mike
I only just today learned about "nomadic identity." It sounds fascinating.
I hear Hubzilla is pretty good.
Chris Trottier
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