Re:Can We Get More Decentralised Than the Fediverse?
by bee_rider on Thursday February 29, 2024 @03:44PM
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Has anybody written this up? I think it could be interesting to see how things are going.
Re:Can We Get More Decentralised Than the Fediverse?
by kornhole on Friday March 01, 2024 @01:08PM
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A good discussion between two people can enhance their understandings. Size/MAU is irrelevant in this context. People in my network smash propaganda every day.
I can understand how you had this experience with the fediverse, but it has gotten better for me over the years. Many big instances are wokist with all kinds of rules such as banning hate speech, but you have many such as noauthority.social that are explicitly free speech. I have been running my own instance for years. People can block me, but nobody can kick me off.
First, nobody cares what anybody on the Fediverse says. It's tiny. It's pinnacle "app", Mastodon, is losing lots of MAU every single day and is now below 1M MAU. Besides being tiny, it's scattered and discovery and search do not work. How can this mess possibly counter propaganda?
Second, whilst the Fediverse may not have sophisticated algorithms, it very much has censorship and typically way more than traditional social networks. It's basically a collection of far-left misfits that engage in constant defederation wars. You can't even post a photo of a meal because somebody will be "triggered".