Stop saying the problem is social media. It's algos that serve profit over users (especially kids) and the public interest. The fedi lets people find community beyond their local network and it lets us build a media infrastructure outside of corporate ownership and the demands of advertisers. #SocialWeb https://pca.st/episode/91904dc8-d882-44c5-944a-69e665b90f96
you're changing the subject. people always say things they don't actually believe are true in order to be part of a community. woke is a new religion. I reject all of them.
but to answer your reply, people always use the supernatural to explain things we haven't figured out yet. the sun was Apollo's chariot etc. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps
Could #matrix become the groups functionality for the #SocialWeb? AKA could our identities be made to be shared between that service and #ActivityPub etc? Both are FOSS and decentralized, right? Thanks.
What do corporate board conversations about executive pay sound like? Do they really think that at the top they have to pay more to make the business run better, but that paying less makes perfect sense for all lower level employees? Or then what's with the lack of competition for the CEO jobs? #economics
I've heard that basically these people are all friends. They sit on multiple boards and go in and out of CEO positions. That there's basically no pressure to save money on this part of the business. Any of that true?
I want to know how fedi sharing got turned on for the @potus#threads account. Basically, how is this outreach happening? In what circles are people being convinced that the decentralization of social media matters? Cause this is either a huge moment or more just nice/lucky. #SocialWeb
If we grow, there will always be a ton of people able to make a decent argument that something is racist, sexist, homophobic or transphobic. it will be endless battles between mods over what justifies action or else face defederation. and also tons of individuals having no idea they are silenced by entire servers. I get strict rules internally but servers blocking/silencing servers or individuals must require a higher bar and be done more transparently. #fediblockmeta
I think where the fedi is held back is that development is more focused on type of service than type of user. maybe that's what you're saying too. the fedi is duplicating the platforms right now so there's a Twitter like instance/app and one for Instagram and Reddit etc. but our advantage is to let all those things commingle and have instances/apps for general users, but also ones for bloggers, podcasters, video creators. the one for gen users should handle all the inputs.
I think that's true but it works. maybe something else would work better but imo we should be very skeptical of big tech coming along with "solutions" that require exactly what they can offer that we can't. BS seems better than most but maybe not good enough.
my understanding is you don't get server to server interaction, but there's an intermediary. it's supposedly designed to make things easier at the edge of the network, but my skepticism leads me to think they will just end up being choke points.
it's hard to get people to care about decentralization. it basically has to be forced on us, or most of us will use Amazon etc. I worry about mastodon dot social for this reason too, but here it's almost like setting up WP. not with BS.
I guess that would be good but isn't most of what we do on social media targeted towards the public? being able to tag people almost unavoidably creates confusion over who can see a post. I'd rather we somehow tie in another service and never try anything like a DM on fedi.
it's a great point but I don't know how you build any momentum on a technology where different people come at it with such different expectations. instead you get a lot of people yelling at each other and curious newbies going somewhere else.
imo the big problem with fedi is that the tech argues for a system similar to Twitter, except even more open/public. but it was first utilized by people trying to be more private, to have their own spaces away from Twitter etc. Ugh.
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