Carighan Maconar

Oh it couldn’t have happened to a better bunch! 😈

Yes, and it’s inherently designed not to be.

But it also bears repeating that decentralization by itself has no advantage, either.

Mastodon did it to themselves.

There’s a reason Bluesky has a UI that’s more or less exactly like old Twitter. It makes for a smooth transfer.

I mean, I feel it’s a misunderstanding of what users actually use social media for.

Just of top of your head, can you list three reasons they want to join the Fediverse for a “normal” Reddit user? Because I struggle to name one, nevermind three. There’s all the technical reasons, ethical stuff, etc. But that’s all something that enthusiasts would consider, and it goes against how the vast vast majority of users use social media where the more centralized the better as it multiplicatively expands the pool of content and interactions to have everyone centralized.

The Fediverse shows this, in fact! Note how resistant users are to spread over instances, in fact being always after centralizing on the bigger ones. But this isn’t a bad thing really, as it’s simply the nature of social media. Of course far less necessary on federated stuff, but there’s also no reason not to (again, from the perspective of someone wanting to use social media, not advocate).

It’s not an easy thing to do to get users here. The place inherently doesn’t appeal to those it would need to appeal to.

Not too be confused with the Masturbatron.

You really should read pages you want to link. And I say this as a die-hard dark mode user. It’s worrying that you so aggressively attack people get cannot even read the page you link far enough to notice that what you are saying about it is nonsense (like how it has “the same reason”, which of course it doesn’t, as made clear in the article).

Or you know, at least don’t be such a dick. That’s also help a lot!

[citation needed]

I think some allow Mastodon login!

On that note, has anyone here gotten into the Surf (the Flipboard thing) beta? I got in, but the download link does not work, but from what I understand that’s supposed to turn into a whole-federation browser starting with the microblogging sites (Mastodon + Bluesky + Threads), so I wonder whether they’ll add support for Pixelfed et al in the future.

No dark mode, no use.

BTW, work boot color is absolutely regulated depending on context. For example here in Germany, if you work in sterile or food-related industries then shoes are to be issued and used with a color that cannot inherently hide stains by the material you’re working with, to prevent accidentally carrying contaminations into other clean zones.

So yes, you would stop the construction crew for using the wrong color work boots.

This is kinda what Surf will be, no? Still in closed beta but it aims to be a browser for the entire federated net, including Threads and Bluesky and all.

If tiktok is sa social media platform, then so is youtube/

You must be fun at parties.

Really? Especially after lockdown, the idea to specifically communicate in non-realtime with friends/family seems quite useful to me.

Yeah you’re right of course, it is censorship. It just happens to be positive. Although, I’d argue that maybe it isn’t based on political or religious views, rather on not wanting to give someone a bad impression of the fediverse and make them leave again? As in, self-serving interests?

I’d make “Waf right now” from it, but I dunno.