I wrote about the #fediverse and how I was wrong about its value in 2026 https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/
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@matdevdug Great article! By the way, a lot of people are looking to follow you on fediverse and can't find you, since there's no link from your website.
@jimkennedy Good point. I added it.
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@matdevdug Good article, lots to agree with.
A little feedback / question, if I may? The image near the bottom of the article... it has no alt text, and while I recognise it as Marienborg, it's not labelled as such; and in any case, I have no idea why you've included Marienborg in the article. Perhaps a joke or metaphor that I'm just not getting.
️Finally, the image caption ("Imagine this...") seems to be styled exactly the same as the main paragraph text, so it just looks like the first line of the next paragraph.
Marienborg and caption-styling aside, I have nothing to criticise in the article. Well written, sir
@rvedotrc Yeah I need to be less lazy and fix that in the custom theme.
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@jimkennedy Good point. I added it.
@matdevdug You could also add an author tag if you like https://rknight.me/blog/setting-up-mastodon-author-tags/ @jimkennedy
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@matdevdug You could also add an author tag if you like https://rknight.me/blog/setting-up-mastodon-author-tags/ @jimkennedy
@gunchleoc @jimkennedy Huh didn’t know those existed.
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@gunchleoc @jimkennedy Huh didn’t know those existed.
@matdevdug @jimkennedy I couldn't easily find it in the docs, which is why I searched the web for it.
@Mastodon Is the author tag feature described on docs.joinmastodon.org, or didn't get it any documentation after the initial announcement on the blog?
I think it should go here: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/profile/#fields and/or here: https://joinmastodon.org/gd/verification
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I wrote about the #fediverse and how I was wrong about its value in 2026 https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/
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Great article. This needs to be read widely! -
I wrote about the #fediverse and how I was wrong about its value in 2026 https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/
@matdevdug just read it on lemmy and instantly wanted to follow you here on Mastodon. Great article!
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I wrote about the #fediverse and how I was wrong about its value in 2026 https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/
@matdevdug I love your writing. Thanks for articulating what many of us are thinking but can’t articulate as well.
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I wrote about the #fediverse and how I was wrong about its value in 2026 https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/
@matdevdug
The title is "Boy i was wrong about the Fediverse" but i cant find what the wrong thinking was within the blog text...
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I wrote about the #fediverse and how I was wrong about its value in 2026 https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/
@matdevdug loved the post, saw it on HN and reminded me that I had this Mastadon account that I hadn't accessed in 2 years!
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I wrote about the #fediverse and how I was wrong about its value in 2026 https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/
@matdevdug
I honestly was having similar thoughts just this morning. When it all feels hopeless and overwhelming, there is the Fediverse.Just as you said - people are posting about what they know. There is SO much value in that. Thanks for reminding me why I keep showing up here.
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@matdevdug The title is "Boy i was wrong about the Fediverse" but i cant find what the wrong thinking was within the blog text...
@Jain @matdevdug I assume it was that at the start, he thought Mastodon was a moderately interesting social media system for wasting time that replaced fascist Twitter for such, and by the end he feels it’s his only place to get reliable and relevant news. It’s no longer just a cute, semi-broken diversion tool for him.
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I wrote about the #fediverse and how I was wrong about its value in 2026 https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/
@matdevdug "...Actual human beings were able to find each other and ask direct questions without this giant mountain of bullshit engagement piled on top of it. Meta or Oracle or whoever owns TikTok this week couldn't stop me. .."
Yes. #fediverse
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@Jain @matdevdug I assume it was that at the start, he thought Mastodon was a moderately interesting social media system for wasting time that replaced fascist Twitter for such, and by the end he feels it’s his only place to get reliable and relevant news. It’s no longer just a cute, semi-broken diversion tool for him.
@MarkT123 @matdevdug i assumed it has to be something like that... Thanks tho -
I wrote about the #fediverse and how I was wrong about its value in 2026 https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/
Read your post. #Trump and the #FCC are trying to censor the news, but we're not at Pyongyang Times levels of media freedom. #WaPo editorials are awful now, but #NYT and local news is great.
Also... "To thrive in #capitalism one must be amoral. Now you can be wildly sickeningly successful with morals but you cannot reach that absolute zenith of shareholder value." IMO those sentences contradict each-other pretty directly. Being wildly successful isn't "thriving"?
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I wrote about the #fediverse and how I was wrong about its value in 2026 https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/
@matdevdug Thanks for the post. Making the fediverse the go to will still take some time, but it will be the best outcome for all of our sanity.
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I wrote about the #fediverse and how I was wrong about its value in 2026 https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/
@matdevdug Cool article! But mentioning a juicy and informative thread about arctic policy and then not linking in on a site with a questionable search function is just sadism. We demand the weird arctic thread!
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I wrote about the #fediverse and how I was wrong about its value in 2026 https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/
@matdevdug loved the article, the paragraph about protocols made me chuckle, it’s so true that
> It flies in the face of literally all of human history, where the more convenient thing always wins regardless of technical meritAs engineers we often undervalue convenience in favor of technological prowess, but convenience always wins at large scale
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I wrote about the #fediverse and how I was wrong about its value in 2026 https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/
@matdevdug
I didn't think about this until i saw it pointed out so:
I want to thank you for writing good and NOT hosting it on substack
thank you -
I wrote about the #fediverse and how I was wrong about its value in 2026 https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/
@matdevdug @elena , first photo in the article
