Fediverse hot takes:
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The only true client is the browser.
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Microblogging be damned.
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it’s the instances/servers that are federated, not the users (ie us) … and damn that too.
Fediverse hot takes:
The only true client is the browser.
Microblogging be damned.
it’s the instances/servers that are federated, not the users (ie us) … and damn that too.
@fediverse
5a) Proof: even if you learn the details of how instance interactions work and cause things like incomplete reply retrieval, you will forget it until reminded, because it’s unintuitive.
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“correct”/good and to simply “join” a foreign place and obey its customs.
Instead, they should have been given their own “place” (a soft Mastodon fork and separate instances) to grow, call and have a culture of their own.
If new platforms eat the fediverse’s lunch (eg BlueSky), it will be by providing this experience.
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7) In the aggregate, #Mastodon / #fediverse are simply unintuitive.
Add up all of the design missteps or confusions (which happen), mixed and confusing but often strongly felt cultural standards, lacking or hard-to-find documentation or explanations, and, federation strangeness/quirkiness … and you get a platform that crosses past the reasonably intuitive line.
It’s reparable, but probably not easily so.
Have you ever used Facebook? That is unintuitive. Twitter as well, most of the big platforms are.
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8) The ideal fediverse is (?):
The flaw of the #fediverse is that it conflates hosting and community services (ie, 1 & 2) and so underperforms at both.
@maegul @fediverse what is an example of platforms as communities? I’ve been struggling to find one as a single-user instance
@redscroll_py @fediverse I don’t know of any. I was proposing what I’d prefer the fediverse were made of.
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9) Like #Twitter and #BlueSky, the fediverse also likely has had its well poisoned … by “tech libertarianism”.
Twitter: “Nazi bar”, BlueSky: “Crypto scam”. Fediverse: “tech libertarianism fanatics”.
You may disagree, but others, perhaps many (?) see it that way and feel that the virtues of a properly designed and managed centralised social media are superior to chaotic volunteer-run decentralisation.
Maybe we should be forced to “work it all out together in the public square”?
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