Also, I don't think anyone predicted all the big social...

Also, I don't think anyone predicted all the big social media platforms would fall the fuck apart this quickly.

Fediverse platforms weren't entirely "ready" because there was no big warning sign before the tree trunk made a loud 'crack' sound and the beast started falling.

Like 17 Jun 2023 at 17:35 | Open on oliphant.social

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Oliphant

I just find this space fundamentally optimistic.

A network of people willingly federating--and importantly setting firm boundaries of what is acceptable behavior--which reflects the real world better than anything else ever has.

And unlike every other place we didn't start out in a deficit to the tune of millions of dollars that has to be repaid to someone who owns us--forcing us to build monetization into the platform.

We run on donations, kids.

17 Jun 2023 at 17:42 | Open on oliphant.social

MHowell

@oliphant
And here is how the Fediverse standardizes:

17 Jun 2023 at 17:57 | Open on kolektiva.social

Matt

@MHowell @oliphant Right, but the Fediverse platforms are not competing with each other, they're standards that can actually co-exist and everyone still communicates with each other, and each additional platform is more options for peoples' use cases in a different way than that comic refers to.

17 Jun 2023 at 19:31 | Open on ragol.org

Kevin Hughes 🐝

@oliphant some of this reminds me of years of using FOSS software. The majority of people, even the "tech savvy" still use MS and Apple systems every day because of the polish and convenience... but the amount of people coming over to the FOSS side is more than enough to make a good enough place to live, we don't need everyone over here.

17 Jun 2023 at 19:23 | Open on mcr.wtf