Gregory's Server
The #Bluesky suggested follower experience appears to work. I made one single meaningless post right when I created the account, engaged basically with nobody, and I have 49 followers.
What can we learn from that in the #fediverse?
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So what is that “identity manager” you speakest of, @mike ? Curious minds would love to know. :-) Created my first repo on codeberg. First impression: really nice! Second impression: really slow! Third impression: HTTP 500 and just where did my repo go when I tried to rename it??? Fortunately it had barely anything in it. So I filed an issue against #codeberg. And they fixed the problem within the hour!! Volunteer organization, operated out of Germany, where it is the middle of the night going into a long weekend. Wow! I guess I need to figure out how to donate a bit to them.  @J12t Yeah, in the busiest hours it is sometimes really slow. They are working on it, but the growth has been pretty steep. I want to introduce the term "Territory" to cyberspace. A Territory is a subset of cyberspace that is governed by the same entity. E.g. when I visit a website, I enter the Territory that the website belongs to, necessarily subjecting myself to the governance in effect in that Territory. That may include TOS, content moderation policy, required payments and fees (e.g. app store cuts) etc This makes it easy to talk about "the rules", because it's just like crossing borders in the physical world. So Facebook and Instagram are built on Meta Territory, and that's largely a Zuck autocracy. Twitter is now a private fief Territory of Elon. While social.coop, from whose Territory I write this, is a democracy. @spreadmastodon@mastodon.social : Given the considerations here: https://mstdn.social/@feditips/110260436878159223, have you considered not steering new Mastodon users to mastodon.social at all? Otherwise your very efforts to bring new users to a "decentralized" social network makes it more centralized, no? /cc @tchambers @davidslifka @feditips @spreadmastodon@venera.social  @J12t @spreadmastodon @tchambers @feditips @spreadmastodon@venera.social Hi Johannes, thanks! Did you see the essay that I wrote on this topic? What do you think? https://medium.com/@davidslifka_86286/how-to-decentralize-social-media-6ae35a49ac46 Hey @SocialCoop, I have 40 notifications but regardless what I do, they never go away in the web interface. Something strange in your Mastodon server configuration? @davew OmniOutliner Pro, current version, has an option to export the data to file format "Plain text (Symantec MORE 3.1)". Thought you might get a chuckle out of that. Ohhh ... The "law of requisite variety" is actually something that exists. I had, for a long time, had a hunch that this is most likely true: as I thought of it, to effectively control a system, the controller's complexity has to be in the same order of magnitude as the system being controlled. Which IMHO is profound if you apply it to the world around you, and explains a few things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_(cybernetics)#Law_of_requisite_variety With surgeon generals such as these, who needs quacks? https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/25/health/florida-covid-vaccine-analysis-ladapo/index.html My take on Murdoch’s firing Tucker Carlson: it was simply that he wasn’t profitable after all. He might have brought in $100m in ad revenue per year (not all of it profit) but at almost $800m in this settlement, and another lawsuit in the pipeline, his lifetime profit contribution for Fox may essentially be zero or even negative. So they get rid of him … and clearly communicate to the next guy that they better not do that stuff again. Stuff=endangering profit. Sufficient explanation imho. Clayton Christensen, sadly not with us any more, described the “law of the conservation of attractive profits” in his 2003 book “The Innovator’s Solution”. It’s been intriguing to me ever since. I wonder whether we can apply it to the revolutionary impact the #fediverse can/will/might/has on the #social media industry. I think it can, and should be applied to understand opportunities and perils — by everybody who has a stake in the fediverse project, even if you want business to stay out. Sea surface temperatures right now. This looks beyond bad. https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/ Imagine if Tucker Carlson ran for president. Now that he's jobless and we know he hates Trump, what else is there to do? (Can you imagine a TV debate between them plus DeSantis?)  In #mastodon, sometimes, my notification count in the standard web interface does not go away. Right now, it's stuck at 40 (the max?), and whatever I do, it doesn't budge. What's going on here? “Welcome back to Clubhouse! People who get the most out of Clubhouse do these 0 steps – check them out! …” Hmmmm. California reservoir levels are in real good shape. Not sure I ever saw San Luis anywhere close to full. https://cdec.water.ca.gov/resapp/RescondMain |
@J12t
I had a similar experience.
@J12t Bluesky is new and people are hungry for others to follow?
I'm a little confused about why you come to the conclusion that suggested follower experience works. *You* get followed so that means it works?
How about on the other side? Have you followed any suggested accounts, and what has the experience been? Were they good suggestions? That would be interesting to hear about too.