Kichae

I mean, it's still going to be years. But maybe when it happens, it won't be so damn sticky next time.

They could outnumber and shout down the existing user base in a day. The number of active users in the fediverse is quite small. A tiny number of toxic people have killed the open social web for the next decade.

User-level moderation isn't moderation. It's a downloading of responsibilities onto the user, but it's not moderation. It's the opposite of moderation.

Yeah, block list sharing is something that has to come to the fediverse, and it needs to be platform agnostic.

It can be, it just involves contacting the site that hosts the top-level post and having it forward the replies itself. It'd be a change to the distribution model, and not a simple one, but can absolutely be done.

The issue isn't where the content lands, it's the erasure of the local. The idea of branding is to help create a local community on the server that has access to the rest of the social web, rather than an impersonal general node on the network.

What we really want is people who are into, I don't know, really into Mazdas coming together to talk to each other on MazdaFans.social, with bespoke theming and branding, while also having access to anything else that they want from startrek.social, weirdbugs.social, etc. What we have is everyone on generic omninodes looking for hashtag mazda, totally unsure if they'll find anything.

Fiddling while the first real chance at breaking the corporate capture of the web burns because you want to feel intellectually superior to the normies is kinda shit, ngl

federation is all to often at the whims of some admin in a pissing match with another server,

Yes, and that's kind of by design. The whole system is not designed to emulate large centralized social media, but to enable content syndication and synchronization across independent publishing platforms. Each site, then, is hosting and serving content published on other sites.

If a site admin decides they don't want to be in a contnt hosting agreememt with another, that's gotta be seen as OK. I wouldn't want to host most people's blogs on my website. Especially if the publishing site had a poor track record of content moderation.

But services like Mastodon bend over backwards to hide the nature of the fediverse, and make it seem like it's all one common place and experince. Most major fediverse platforms now fail to allow sufficient theming or site branding, and reinforce the idea that the local site's community is meaningless, and is to be ignored.

It bypasses the whole point, so that everyone can get all shakey trying to avoid the FOMO.

Something that could be fixed if creative types and fun people would just flood the place already. The place is being held hostage by social misers and digital HOA Karens.

Umm, it's November, and in Canada. Is it ok if I wait until April?

For a lot of Twitter users, this is their first collapse and migration. Usually these events make people more mobile in the future.

I wonder if and when they'll start moving on from Bluesky? What event will trigger it next time? How much the experience will have to fall apart before they pack up and move? My money is on 'way less than last time'.

Not the same, no, but it offers enough to get people started, and keep them happy.

Which Mastodon just kind of refuses to do.