Social media sucks. Platforms like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram are designed to turn your precious free time into money. What we see as a nice way to stay in touch with our friends, in reality are just many hits of dopamine stimulating precise spots in your brain, leading to you spending more time on the platform consuming ads.
But what if I told you that there is a huge ad-free social network out there, not governed by a central authority, full of great people and completely free to use? This place is called the Fediverse. Well, it’s not really a place, it’s many places.
See the 6 reasons and a good short overview of what the Fediverse is about at https://slashdev.space/posts/2021-01-18-reasons-the-fediverse-is-better
#technology #opensource #fediverse #alternativeto #privacy
Decentralized Social Networks vs The Trolls - https://conf.tube/videos/watch/d8c8ed69-79f0-4987-bafe-84c01f38f966
To be honest I’ve had to block over 80 profiles on MeWe for active trolling (a centralised platform) vs on Mastodon.social only three. I can mute, block or report a profile on Mastodon and Pixelfed, and on Mastodon even block a whole domain by the looks of it, if it is a trolling instance. My other big problem network with trolls was Google+ also a centralised network. So it’s probably true the bigger the network, the bigger the problem. As I’ve been involved more and more on P2P networks the experience has been even better as you only see / hear from whom you connect to.
What is great with a decentralised network is if you don’t agree with the policies of an instance you can move to another and your followers can still follow you. On FB, Twitter etc you are just out.