However, while I saw some really nice updates come through, I also saw some that weren’t so great. It felt like they were making poor choices, likely because of their legal department.
Eugen Rochko: That’s exactly how I would put it. It’s like Cambridge Analytica burned them, and they didn’t want a repeat. And that really limited what they could do.
The tone of how they speak about Meta and Threads bothers me. It was incredibly obvious why it failed.
threads = meta/Facebook… one of the main reasons why people came to the fediverse in the first place, was to get the hell away from those crappy corporations. who honestly though it was smart to have them try to infect the fediverse.
That is the wonderful thing – even if the creator and ruling bodies of mastodon want to integrate with threads, local admins can band together and choose not to.
right on
It occurs to me anyway that making Fediverse apps in the shape and likeness of corporate media was a mistake. Even without the ever-present feed algorithms, people still post as though they are in an attention economy in these formats because they were conditioned to do so for years.
I understand that this was done to make adoption and migration easier, but I feel like the Fediverse ultimately needs to succeed on its own terms.
What would a format look like that beats corporate while being antagonist to the dopamine hell design? Each post an intrecate explorable interactive webpage with cool secrets to find?
A chronologically sorted list of posts by the people I follow and nothing else.
So basically Mastodon? Just don’t follow any tags
I’m hoping the sucessor of the fediverse is something from the spritely institute
I like how they have goblins inside
