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I felt the same and it’s good. I guess that’s the upside of no algorithm.

At best this is flipped, and at worst it just doesn’t fit. The “fuck around” part is the experimentation, and “find out” the conclusions made from that experience. Still, the concept is more about doing stuff without much premaditation and just seeing what happens.

I legit could use this, but yeah the killswitch is probably a requirement

AB testing has been around for a while

Ah yes, bring censorship to the platform

One of my favorite retro memes. Remember the song?

It really depends. Sometimes it’s actually more productive to just rest, or if it’s because of a specific issue then fix that. I don’t struggle with being productive in general, but if you’re not legitimately tired or having symptoms of physical or mental health issues, then the best thing to do is set up an environment where it’s more costly to be unproductive than being productive. Put your phone or other distractions away so you can’t see or reach them.

Huh, “The Fediverse” ? No, no, it says “Defediverse” here.

I still get the “language not allowed” every now and then when commenting even though I set it to english

When you think about it, bird feeders are also cat feeders.

100% relatable

Both. I don’t think they’re particularly related to me. One is more like a puzzle, the other one interests me more in terms of finding meaning and common origins in words from different languages. I also enjoy getting pronunciation right in foreign languages.

To be fair, all I’ve heard from Mastodon is “it’s decentralized Twitter”. I can’t blame it on the newcomers, intentional or not that’s the way it’s presented. Also, ideologically platforms should strive to be neutral and seeking common ground. It’s one thing if you access a specific community (magazine/ subreddit or what have you) but when the platform itself is expected to lean towards a certain ideology, it ends up being an echo chamber that both works as a circle jerk and prevents others from joining in. I get that instances are self hosted and basically your own turf online so you get to do what you want, but defederating over personal beliefs is kind of authoritarian and detracts from the end user experience.

I’m not shitting on Mastodon here, to be very clear. On the contrary, I want the Fediverse to be the best it can be and find a good balance between growing to a size where it’s worth keeping it as a general home without being tethered to other social media for your frends and different perspectives and content but also keeps the values of decentralized and community-driven space.

Unless you just want a niche space isolated from the rest of the world, compromises need to be made on both ends, from the more hardcore and passionate members of the community and the “average online user”.

That’s a very interesting and useful read, albeit also really long, but worth it. I think that the mindset of people coming from Reddit (myself included) is different than the people from Twitter. Reddit itself is a weird paradoxical “huge niche” of people who tend to be less conforming and slightly more educated on thech. However, it is true that the Fedi community should make some compromises to really be welcoming and support newcomers, and the tecnical side should change to make it more viable in the aspects that this post outlined. Perhaps some under the hood optimizations and centralization compromises where smaller instances can depend on bigger ones like a tree instead of connecting to every single other instance.

My point is, the Fediverse will probably never be mainstream, but has a shot at being “big enough”. However this shot depends significantly on the people running it and the community at large making compromises at least as big as the ones newcomers make wheb joining to find a middle ground, which may not happen.

I came over from Reddit recently, the whole spez debacle being the trigger to find about the Fediverse and answering the question “will there ever be an open source alternative?”. I’m still trying to get the hang of things and, admittedly, wrestling with some inconveniences, but really believe in the concept and see the potential.

I think there’s a tradeoff that will never find an ideal sweetspot between quantity and quality of users. If a social network has little to no activity, what’s the point of it? But if everyone’s on board, the intelectual and potentially moral bar will drop. Most people really aren’t so idealistic or knowledgeable, especially with the inner workings of tech and the behind-the-scenes of companies. The best we can do is accept the good and the bad and try to educate people as they come hoping that eventually things will be better.