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.
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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”?
@fediverse
Have you ever used Facebook? That is unintuitive. Twitter as well, most of the big platforms are.