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 There’s already much subculture/microculture on the Fediverse. Stuff that is unlikely to find its way into the Atlantic or New York Times. While institutional journalism is going down with the Twitter ship, they’re missing out on a whole lot because they’re not here. Their loss is our gain. 11 comments
 @atomicpoet I don't know if you need any confirmation that your words are very actual, but here it is. I've been a journalist since I was 17. I graduated in Journalism in Political Sciences here in Sarajevo. Quit journalism after a stress-induced heart attack when I was only 34. Since then, I have worked in marketing/PR and am now a community manager in an IT company. Journalism has been leashed for far too long. @atomicpoet that's true, but..that assumes that the servers stay up. Behind the Fediverse is a whole bunch of Harry Tuttles keeping the whole thing going. I guess that makes the Fediverse sort of....Punk? @justinmwhitaker The Fediverse subsists on duplicates and duplicates of duplicates. @atomicpoet i‘m still in a mailing list, which started in mid 90s as a Yahoo! Group and had to move to Google Groups (because Yahoo! ended the service) but the number and activity shrinked to a minimum (nearly died)  @atomicpoet 90s Internet initially helped subcultures of the era, particularly the rave scene - but folk got complacent thinking it was a magic safe space where opponents didn't have any clout, and many encouraged by corporate social media that tolerated "edgy" content for traffic/ad revenue ended up oversharing incidents of drug use/dealing and even addiction, anti social behaviour and money laundering, and handed evidence on a plate to cops and prohibitionists... |
Gregory's Server
One final thought.
During the 2010s, I became active in a variety of microcultures.
The tragedy of most of them is that they were hosted on a variety of proprietary social platforms, and died when these platforms didn’t attain an increase in shareholder value.
But this isn’t a problem with the Fediverse.
The Fediverse is an excellent destination for creativity because no one can own it.