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Justinas DΕ«dΔ—nas

@pluralistic Nicely written!
Noticed a minor inaccuracy:
β€œ...you can switch to another server and your messages and links to your friends will follow you there". It is the idea, but not entirely the reality. You retain your followers and followed ones, but the messages sadly are not moved to your new server. Done that.

29 Oct 2022 at 9:03 | Reply | Open on tilde.zone
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@pluralistic what a great piece! I especially enjoyed the diverse set of outlinks.

29 Oct 2022 at 9:47 | Reply | Open on dice.camp
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@pluralistic very interesting approach on the subject of social media and the fediverse alternative πŸ‘ŒπŸ½

29 Oct 2022 at 10:35 | Reply | Open on mastodon.social
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Charles J Gervasi βš‘πŸ›‘οΈ

@pluralistic I enjoyed this article, but I don't think we need to use govt force to force social media companies to be interoperable.
The article an the article it liked to made me think about the journey from letters to magazines and newspapers to open protocols and back to centrally managed sites like FB.

29 Oct 2022 at 15:14 | Reply | Open on fosstodon.org
Dr. Quadragon ❌

@cgervasi Yeah, because surely, they will do it on their own, out of pure goodness of their hearts.

Unless you're proposing storming their headquarters on our own, I don't see Zuck or Musk freeing their hostages because that would mean leaving money on the table, and they can't have that.

@pluralistic

30 Oct 2022 at 17:16 | Reply | Open on mastodon.ml
Charles J Gervasi βš‘πŸ›‘οΈ

@drq @pluralistic People are not hostages to products and services.

30 Oct 2022 at 17:21 | Reply | Open on fosstodon.org
Dr. Quadragon ❌

@cgervasi Looks like you either didn't read the article or oblivious to what's happening. Or both.

@pluralistic

30 Oct 2022 at 17:26 | Reply | Open on mastodon.ml
Charles J Gervasi βš‘πŸ›‘οΈ

@drq
@pluralistic I enjoyed the article. In my lifetime we've gone from gatekeepers as a fact of life, to no gatekeepers, to a feedback loop that gives us more of the train wrecks we crane our necks at the most. We want to tools to be our own gatekeepers, along the line of RSS readers content published by a variety pf sources we select.
I think (hope) that that train-wreck feedback loop maybe a dying late 10s phenomenon.

30 Oct 2022 at 17:35 | Reply | Open on fosstodon.org
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@pluralistic ...and now I've learned about the fediverse, which is like finding a thing I didn't realize I'd like to find. Cheers!

30 Oct 2022 at 1:05 | Reply | Open on mastodon.social
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