Kichae

It's really showing the huge issues with fediverse monoculture, too, that is driven in no small part by Mastodon. Mastodon is designed with very limited theming, very limited ability to self-brand, etc. It's designed so that every Mastodon website looks just like every other. This gives most people the impression that Mastodon is a place on the Internet, in the same way that, say, Facebook is, rather than a website platform like WordPress.

The magic of being able to see what people post on other websites from the one you're using gets totally overwritten by the expectation that everything is actually the same place. And once you have that expectation, Mastodon kind of feels broken. "What do you mean I can't see all of the comments? Why not?", "What do you mean you're denying me access to those people over there?", etc.

And don't even get me started on the people lobbying for limited functionality because they want to own the commons and dictate how people use the public and open communication protocol.

It's all so frustrating, and sad.

The trolls and fascists do not exist on Twitter to hang out with other trolls and fascists. They're there hunting for liberal tears. When their prey leaves, they follow.

Bluekky has been open about not moderating their platform. They've provided users tools to not see the shit they're letting through the door -- which, yes, is currently better than Twitter, where the current ownership believes that 'free speech' is deserving of a captive audience -- but if the bsky algorithm thinks you have something -- anything, really -- in common with the Nazis, they'll get shunted into your timeline, leaving you to play wack-a-mole.

Misskey and its forks have had user recommendations for forever now. Suddenly this is an issue for Mastodon, but it wouldn't have been an issue for the fediverse if Mastodon didn't have a functional monopoly over the conversation.

You know things are going to get messy when the PoC are demonstrating. That's when the cops turn off their body cameras.

People just very badly want to not know about other fediverse platforms for some reason.

But I thought he thought antisemites were very fine people!

Well, the crypto bros only seem to come up with scammy uses for crypto, whereas cash can be exchanged for goods and services.

And sitting on the couch with their dicks in their hands is "hard work" for them, but it's just jerking off for the rest of us. These assholes consider themselves working when they sleep, because them being rested is "good for the business".

In the words of my therapist, "that's just rage". Anger is the feeling that says "no" and motivates you to action, not the one that kicks and screams and does nothing.

It's best use case is self-hosting by established creators funded primarily by patreon subscribers, rather than new creators. But established creators won't abandon the platform with their viewers. So, it's a bit of a jam.

Fediverse platforms also just seem terribly uninterested in supporting creatives' business models, so we get a high minded desert.

Yeah, but you are still treating them as subsets of a singular whole.

Don't do that. It's actively bad for the ecosystem, and will trend things toward mega-community mono-spaces where people just snipe at each other for karma.

From my experience, how people expect it to work is to be centralized and neutrally hosted, with instances acting as dumb portals, mainframe+terminal style. So it cannot work as people expect and be decentralized.