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David PierceOver the course of 2023, I became totally radicalized by the fediverse's potential to improve just about everything about our online lives. I wrote about why — and what it'll take to get there: https://www.theverge.com/23990974/social-media-2023-fediverse-mastodon-threads-activitypub
Sally Strange@davidpierce Capitalist propaganda aside, it's a good article.
william.maggosany chance of a theverge.social instance coming soon?
@wjmaggos It's something we're talking about! Finite resources, lots of ideas, all that... but we're gonna do something here, and it's gonna be awesome
Nicole ParsonsHuman beings come in all shapes and sizes.
Appreciation for that rich variety is one of the benefits of the fediverse.
🇨🇦 Dianne SI mean, yes, sure... but I'm old enough to remember the heady days of the late 80s and early 90s when the Internet was going to usher in an era of unstoppable democratic reform, increases in social equality, and other happy things.
Didn't quite work out the way it was envisioned. And I'm not sure the entrenched surveillance capitalism business model of the Internet is so easy to disrupt.
Alexey VazhnovGood phrase:
> "The only way to see your Facebook posts is to sign up for Facebook’s rules, Facebook’s aesthetic, Facebook’s features, Facebook’s moderation, Facebook’s algorithm, and Facebook’s business model"
Also, I remember nice catch "Facebook chooses what you read":
Chewie@davidpierce
Interesting article.
It also mentions farcaster - something I've not heard of before: https://www.farcaster.xyz/ which I will be investigating soon!
Interesting article.
It also mentions farcaster - something I've not heard of before: https://www.farcaster.xyz/ which I will be investigating soon!
Tony Masiello 
☮@davidpierce The sad thing is that we have had this several times in the past. In the early days there was telnet and BBS. That gave way to usenet news, IRC, and of course the early WWW, which had a wonderful DIY low-fi ethic. Then there was RSS syndication, which provided a way to aggregation diverse content. There was a boom of DIY blogs.
That being said, I hope you are right and we move back to a more decentralized world!
Andie@davidpierce I just love that when something new coming out, someone’s take is always “we can also monetize it”, and how you talk about decentralization and user owned content then immediately talk about creating filtering algorithms on this platform. “Hey look these people didn’t even realized that we can make money from it! ”
@davidpierce I like this, gets me wondering what I could make for it.
The Animal and the Machine@davidpierce #dev #mastodon #fediverse #developers Please, dont ban people that forgot to tag nsfw posts as nsfw! Please put an option for an entire account to be treated as nsfw OR let AI to decide NSFW content. Also, even FB dont ban me for 3 years cause i forgot to tag pictures as NSFW! Are you a church? I must pray to god when go to FB or mastodon? Is our body a sin?
Jake in the desert@davidpierce great piece! And SAME
Bert Latamore@davidpierce I totally agree that the Fediverse should be the future. But I suspect it will not be because nobody gets rich out of it, so investors will not support it
Григорий КлюшниковI used to believe that adversarial interoperability will save the world from the greed of commercial social media companies. Now I'm convinced it's the fediverse that will save it. You can tell because I'm writing this from my own ActivityPub server I built from scratch :P
(adversarial interoperability is still needed to make the world better, though — especially in things like instant messaging)
★ Amy Star ★@davidpierce Threads exists in the fediverse for the sole purpose of advertising itself and crushing its competition through embrace/extend/extinguish in the pursuit of exponential growth to pay dividends to shareholders, not to enrich some utopian idea of decentralization. they will turn off ActivityPub the moment it costs them more than it makes.
the fediverse does not need to be a product. it does not need to be mainstream. not everyone needs to be "on the same app." I hope nobody gets rich off of the fediverse. I hope this place remains completely uncool and cringe to VCs and capitalist vultures. I hope we continue to scare away those who would take this small sliver of honest human connection away from us. social media should serve its users, not "growth", not "the product", and certainly not any utopian ideal of capitalist "meritocracy."
Tim McNamara@davidpierce RSS would have been a better foundation, but hey
TubbDoose@davidpierce I’m also really excited about the innovation decentralization will bring to the internet! If I want to I could even make a thing just to use for myself!