I'm still sticking with my call that *long-term*, decentralized social media will be the winner. Too many of the world's greatest Android and iOS mobile development teams are now building for the fediverse. Too many of the world's best *human* moderation, privacy, and safety, experts are on the fediverse. The user benefits are too aligned, despite companies not having the usual metrics and analytics to optimize the experience.

Fighting the fediverse is like fighting a flood by punching it.

Yes, Mastodon still has huge problems with "HOA racism" and user safety. But there is a "path to green" for all of these problems. And people (including me! 🙋🏿‍♂️) are working on them.

Yes, the current version of ActivityPub is not ready for what's coming. But again, too many of the world's best SREs and API designers are now poking ActivityPub with a stick again, now that the scale constraints have changed.

@kwantumkraut
By observation:

If someone says that they've experienced racism then the responses they get are:

1. Skepticism. "Please show an example of this."
2. Victim-blaming. "If you don't like it you can just change instance."

Home Owners Association vibe comes with the above and

3. "Please put a content warning on your life (as I do not wish to see your problems)."
4. Tone policing. "Stop being so angry."

I'm probably missing a couple but it's pretty toxic.

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@mekkaokereke