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Except for the rich.

I am responding to this toot which contains a pretty good article from a perspective I don't hold. I am choosing to not reply because my thoughts are kinda becoming thier own thing and I dont like to stay on topic which I feel I must within a reply: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/110579639229789685

The article is concerned about the failure of mastodon to hang onto the inital boom of users migrating from twitter, and lists reasons why it thinks this. I want to discuss if those same issues are going to impact reddit's migration into the fediverse and those issues in a general sense. While I think the presented issues in the article are vaild; in my opinon a major blunder was made before the migration and it isnt discussed in the article. I also think that this problem which occured with the twitter migration into the fediverse is not being replicated with reddit.

This problem begins with twitter users being told that there was one place to go, namely mastodon. This was beacuse it was the most mature of all the fedi software. This is in turn because of it's intense focus on the "2008 twitter experience", as the article refers to, as activitypub literally was finished in 2018. Its ultimate goal is to be used as a core part of something as complicated as a social network, so this meant it is complicated. Heck, most fedi software doesn't even implement all of activitypub functionality today. This means that all of this fedi software is essentially in beta or alpha, as developers have had at most a few years to make thier software (as well as not getting paid for it mostly). The twitter migration happened kinda before lots of different fedi software was ready to scale up that much, so mastodon was it. If it happened today, I think things like misskey/calckey would be much better for modern twitter users.

This in turn made things really confusing cause people were wondering what is different between mastodon and the fediverse, as well as have people look at mastodon, not like it, and not have any alternatives except to go back to twitter.

With the reddit migration, the fediverse missionaries are touting two softwares: lemmy and kbin, because neither are mature. If one isnt to your liking, well there is another; and now with the moniker of "threadiverse" we already discuss them in the same breath. This change in language already primes people for the explanation of the decentralized nature of the fediverse; cause once you get over two different softwares interacting with each other, it becomes quite simple. The language we use matters! I also think that the people who are migrating from reddit are more willing to put up with technical bullshit as reddit grew out of programming circles, which has surprisingly mostly stuck around.

I am proud I'm Autistic.

I love getting super absorbed in subjects I find fascinating.

Watching the grass sway in the wind for hours.

Replaying beloved old episodes of shows I love, my forever friends.

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Apparently, this guy writing for The Atlantic’s “Science” department believes “rooting for orcas” will somehow encourage them to attack more boats.

The article is about how awful and mean orcas can be. Has this dude ever taken a good look at his own species?

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/06/orca-killer-whale-attacking-boats/674438/