Not really. We just have to keep this place alive and buzzing so they have a safety net to fall back on. And the Fediverse has it's own life energy that makes it a fun and interesting place to be. We don't need huge hoards to enjoy it.
If we've learned anything from Antietam, it's that we just can't keep marching people over a hill from just one side.
If there is a hill, it needs to be approached around from the right, around from the left, and THEN over the top. Taking the top then means that you have the high ground and can chase those Bastards straight back to Hell.
I think that's a misunderstanding. They don't leave X because Elon is a nazi, but because there are too many nazis, trolls and dipshits in their timeline and interactions and that's a problem BlueSky actually solves quite well at the moment (and to be fair, better than the fediverse). Threads not so much, but they seem to abandon that too in the meantime.
That is partly right, but obviously many could live very well with Twitter being for-profit pre-Elon and many can live with BlueSky the way it is right now. Because it also has some aspects people like. that the fediverse is lacking.
@light Yes, I think Aether was a really interesting experiment!
Hylo has also been introducing some interesting collaborative moderation tools.
And a student of mine has been building user-governed moderation for Bsky: https://pmsky.social/
Has Elon been banned from getting a Fediverse account?
Well that's unfortunate, then, since it's not billionaire-proof. He's free to infect the Fediverse like the unwoke virus that he is. It's the Paradox of Tolerance again.
Fascists and other threats to society need to be exiled - excommunicated - from it, per the Paradox of Tolerance. Break the contract and it no longer binds you nor tolerates you.
@VulcanTourist @ntnsndr That is actually impossible as a full ban would require every other server to refuse to federate with any server he set up as well as banning him directly.
He would not last two minutes here on Kolektiva, but this is ONE instance not the whole network. I would not last two minutes on Gab, but note that that's a standalone instance nobody federates with.
@adrianmorales
Cheers to your blocking policy; and yes, there is a part of the fediverse standing against the threat!
Yeah, the Free Fediverse, anti-Meta FediPact, and instances with blocking policies like the ones @adrianmorales all have an explicit goal of being billionaire resistent.
And totally agree: with Meta having so much influence over the AP standard it's proof by example that any AP-centric construct is not billionaire-resistant.
@thenexusofprivacy @adrianmorales @ophiocephalic @ntnsndr
What influence does Meta has over AP? Where can we check that?
@nemesis
Excuse the self-promotion, but you can have a look at some posts on that subject which are linked at the top of my feed under the heading "Meta and its collaborators"
You can track the SocialCG's public discussions at https://www.w3.org/wiki/SocialCG - it has links to the email list and meeting notes. Here's an example of somebody from a Meta-funded non-profit (who's got a major role in the discussions going forward) attempting to shut down criticisms of Meta on the email list. https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swicg/2025Jan/0026.html
The SocialCG is currently in the process of coming up with a charter for a Working Group to create the next version of the ActivityPub spec. Things to look for: does Meta have a representative on the working group? (Since they're a dues-paying W3C member, they're entitled to one, so presumably the answer will be yes.). How many people from Meta-funded non-profits (or organizations that take funding from Meta or Meta-funded non-profits) will be in the group? What roles will they play, publicly and behind the scenes? How many people critical of Meta will be involved -- and what roles will they play?
Well said. Now let's get back to work.
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@ntnsndr I've seen the UX-related Mastodon issues that seem to stay open forever. It's not happening here.
I thought I read that cwebber was planning a different alternative (successor) to ActivityPub.
@ntnsndr The Right actually learned this lesson after 2020. They got kicked off Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit. They went to Rumble for video, and Patriots.win for Reddit-like discussion.
Who was it that said the power of the press belongs to the person who owns it?
@UlrikeHahn @ntnsndr It depends what you mean by social media.
The agora enabled Athenian democracy.
Coffeehouses and salons fueled the rise of Enlightenment republicanism.
Early social networks aided the Arab Spring.
But once powerful figure out how to centralize those platforms, they become counter-democratic.
@ntnsndr Don't worry! We're about 2.5% of the way to billionaire-proofing social media! 🤡
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-free-social-media-from-billionaires
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