@atomicpoet What is the point?

@fediversenews @the_Effekt

@atomicpoet @fediversenews How does this technically work with "decentralized" network...???

For nearly 20 years, Meta has proven time and time again that they care nothing for the open web.

And should they use the open web, it’s for sucking up as much personal data as they can.

So I’m not excited about Meta joining the Fediverse, and I’m skeptical.

By the way, I'm also running atomicpoet.org, a Pleroma server. Also, peerverse.space, a Pixelfed server.

And I'm testing out lots of emerging Federated platforms to better understand them.

And I'm writing about my experiences here on mastodon.social.

@atomicpoet The strength of the Fediverse is exactly this. Every #Fediverse platform helps bring value to every other one.

Network effects help every one.

#TakeBackSocial

I’m not against Bluesky.

But I don’t like Bluesky’s approach to focusing on mobile apps instead of building out actual decentralization.

It is actually scary that so many people are trumpeting this as The Next Big Thing™ when Bluesky operates on one node and is currently the sole key generator for identities.

We should talk about good metrics for the #fediverse. Number of … users? Connections/follows? Servers? Posts? Comments? Comments per post? Different apps? Different use cases! And I’m sure there are many interesting others.

@atomicpoet

There’s very, very good reasons to not push people to Mastodon. What’s more important is asking, “How do you intend on using social media?”

Are you an artist who wants to curate your work? I’m not convinced that Mastodon is right for you.

Same with with anyone requiring rich text formatting. Mastodon is probably not for you, and that’s okay.

You have other options on the Fediverse.

@atomicpoet I’m surprised he hasn’t switched to the Fediverse, honestly. It seems more his style.

@atomicpoet Elon is exerting control over the accounts of those that do not like him. I call it the Cyan Letter.

@atomicpoet for crying out loud.

Can someone please tell everyone that's irritated about blue checks and whatnot to start posting links to Mastodon, Substack, and every article that journalists have been banned from Twitter over?

@atomicpoet @pierce @fediversenews
Indeed a very good Fediverse article from David Pierce in The Verge. 1 quote

'But if our current social system was decentralized, you’d be able to post a picture on Instagram and I could see it + comment on it in the Twitter app. Your friends could read your tweets in their TikTok app. ... Different apps would have different strengths and weaknesses, ..., but you’d have the same set of followers and follow the same accounts no matter which platform you use.'

So @sequel is not the only social network I've seen that runs through Gemini.

Station is another one:

gemini://station.martinrue.com/

However, Station is centralized.

What I find interesting about @sequel is that it plausibly works more like Mastodon -- you could plausibly run your own server.

@atomicpoet

Such an anti-Midas touch Elon has.

Dismantling everything that made Twitter "indispensable".

@atomicpoet

maybe some kind of plug-in for their already existing internet infrastructure is the way to go. I wonder what the backend at all these media companies and govts looks like.

@atomicpoet

Credit: New York Times Magazine article by Willy Staley, April 18, 2023, photo by Jamie Chung, design by Pablo Delcan.

@atomicpoet@mastodon.social ​:calckey:​ <--- ​:ablobbonedance:​

@atomicpoet I have an alt on Calckey and I really like it! The platform is still a bit too rough around the edges for it to become my main fedi account, but that could definitely happen as Calckey improves.

@atomicpoet Silly question but what's the difference between Mastodon and Calckey? Calckey looks prettier from what I can see

@atomicpoet
I can be wrong, but I feel that :mastodon: and in general the :fediverse: is better because it has a learning curve to it. People have to make a conscious effort to get in and even after that, to stay... Many third party clients, many interactions with others have to happen before any resemblance of a timeline occurs.
The people that stays are the resilient ones and I love them.

@atomicpoet Damn people get scared for just a link goddamn

@atomicpoet I just wish I could get on it to find out myself. Signed up as soon as it was possible and heard nothing.

@atomicpoet Any examples? What exactly makes you think it is run by state-sponsored actors?

Having some news bots in Russian (even RT) hardly qualifies for such recommendations.

@atomicpoet its mentioned in one movie!

@atomicpoet better their wife's voice than somebody else's

@atomicpoet why am I both terrified and excited by this glimpse of the immediate future? I hate myself.

@atomicpoet

ironically, it was created as a backup wife in case of divorce.

(did not end up serving its purpose after wife sues for custody of it)

@atomicpoet They see it as a god or an angel because they are the god.

@atomicpoet boring answer: because no-one who created one has the surname Frankenstein.

@atomicpoet

and i went lookin' and posted a comment not long ago ... interesting.

@atomicpoet honestly this would explain so much.

Let me tell you, last year on Mastodon, I was considered far less radical than some who dominated the Trending feed.