DoritMar 7
Nicolas Fressengeas

RE: https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/116186829550751203

"I never expected to find my news from strangers on a federated social network that half the internet has never heard of. I never expected a lot of things. But there's something quietly beautiful about a place where people just... share what they know. No brand deals, no engagement metrics, no algorithm nudging you toward rage. [...] It's the internet I was promised in 1996. It only took thirty years and the complete collapse of American journalism to get here."

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Mar 7 at 9:11amWeb
Show threadPam CMar 7
@fresseng Looking at Bsky, it seems that the overwhelming majority are after follows and clicks and that's not what the fediverse is about. It's more about interactions and conversations. In some ways, it's like a modern version of IRC.
Show threadStrypeyMar 7
@fresseng Well that's a bit validating for a project that's been almost 20 years of unpaid blood, sweat and tears for some of us, now isn't it ; )
Show threadGemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐Mar 11
@fresseng It didn't take 30 years to get here, though. This is what the Internet was before 2007 and the rise of Facebook and Twitter. USENET was exactly this, before the Endless September. Slashdot was like this from 1997-2007, before "social media" took over. People have entirely forgotten that Google+ was a complete rip-off of Diaspora*.