Fediverse

Thank you for actually writing out what happened. I still can't make sense of Mastodon threads. Whoever had the idea to make you click "read more" on each individual post to read it needs to take a basic UX course. Absolutely unusable.

At least they're blatant in showing us who their target audience is.

Facebook can get fucked. I hope mark Zuckerberg goes fucking bankrupt trying to get his fucking ‘metaverse’ shit to take off. What a fucking spoon. The sooner someone invents a reason why it’s not a massive advantage to be a complete psychopath the better.

Well, Threads was meant as a Twitter competitor. Seems like the toxicity levels are starting to get on-par.

People have really been hyping up threads as if it isn't made by the same company that's been using its various social media platforms for the past decade to promote and indoctrinate people into alt-right ideology purely for money.

I saw the same post! Was in my feed on Instagram, kind of like an ad to download Threads. It was preceeded by two posts from attractive young women looking for "travel partners".

What an inept way to promote a website: Two bots and a bigot.

I (am blessedly fortunate to be able to) run a single user instance for myself. By definition, I don't see this shit.

But I rage for the folks who do.

It's real simple: However one perceives oneself is valid, full stop. Who the hell am I to suggest otherwise? I'm not in anyone else's head.

These motherfuckers, and threads, have more than one suicide upon their heads I'm quite sure.

As for me, it's no trouble at all to call someone by their preferred (anything) - Countless kids decided in their late teens to use their middle name, or something totally unrelated. You wanna be "Skip," I'm good with that. Dunno why, wouldn't be my choice, but... All that's relevant is that you identify as Skip or Buddy or Lisa or Suzie.

I’m currently looking for a new Mastodon home that goes a step further than the Fedipact. I’m looking for an instance that not only refuses to federate with Facebook themselves, but also blocks any other fediverse instance that does allow Facebook’s content. Any suggestions?

There's replies to this post that I can't see whilst logged in. No idea why, a foible of federation maybe.

“We” created the Fedi to have interoperable systems and to give users autonomy over their accounts and their feeds. That’s why there’s an option for users to block other users and even entire servers.

Not sure what the scare quotes round 'we' are for, but anyway, personal autonomy is a great thing, but when your autonomy negatively affects other people's desire to remain on a platform, then its not so much autonomy as selfishness. I'm well aware users and instances can be blocked, but when Meta start truly ramping up Threads we'll be talking hundreds of millions of users and god knows how many domains/instances. Trying to avoid hate is going to become the primary thing some people have to do. Or just leave the fediverse.

No one is doing that.

Yes, they are. There are whole instances out there dedicated to (so called) minority groups who some of the hate groups on Threads, both now and in the future, will come after. They already do this on Twitter, TikTok, etc etc - do you think they'll just not do that on Threads? Or that Meta will moderate them appropriately?

You see it as the Fediverse promoting Meta but we see the opposite.

Is that a joke? You honestly think that by federating with Threads, your average Threads user is going to see the promised land of the fediverse and switch in significant numbers?

I’ve literally never seen anyone say this except FediPacters as a strawman

Then you've not been paying attention.

I always find screenshots from apps confusing. Also I don't use IG. What is the context of these text boxes? Who is "promoting" the posts? It sounds like an ad from the user who posted it, but the accompanying text says it is advertising Threads.

I notice that the image posted here and the one in the comments by @wolfshadowheart have the same content but the usernames are different. Are they mirror accounts?

We all knew this will happen then you can take preventive measures or not. I always think preventing os a better option with lower cost.

Now, people have to act otherwise they are supporting these views. The fediverse is a safe space for many minorities. You may not be part of one of them but the fediverse doesn't work like other social media. You don't have one parent company to take in account. You are accountable or at least the instance you're on. This is due to federation.

People have to change their mind on this too. We have to change this rule. We have to move more like one. This can be called unionizing. People and instance have to unionize to keep the leadership in social media. This will be a non individual response to the issues. We look collectively at them with tolerance as a common contract.

This is the opposite of how these companies like meta work. They want to put the responsibility on the individual as always. They grow their capital from this by exploiting the cognitive free work of the user. It's completely individual and the algorithms help to push this logic at the extrem. By thinking, the fediverse should not have a common response, people are playing the game of these companies.

This is why we have to change and unionize, to have a peaceful place where we put the common first and reject the individualism. We can show people that a better place with different rules than what we see for now 40 years is possible online.

A garbage social network run by garbage people using hate to spur comments and clicks!? Well that's unheard of!

On a serious note, thanks for sharing this.