After about twelve hours, the same post had received more than 300 shares and likes on Mastodon, while it had only been shared three times and liked four times on BlueSky.
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From what I see the Fediverse is what you want to make of it. You curate your own time line, letting some in and others out. I don't see why you can't keep the Fediverse the way you like it as long as you're willing to stay vigilant and/or switch instances when it's necessary.
It can remain a small neighborhood for you while others discover it.
Am I wrong on this point?
@MyWoolyMastadon @benroyce @engel @everton137
Not wrong. I do feel a pang of guilt if I mute someone who is posting in a different language, though. Or is posting a lot of tech based fixes or informatiin abuut specificprograms, buyt I am not technical at all.
And, you know, the whole three years of HS French that I don't remember!
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After about twelve hours, the same post had received more than 300 shares and likes on Mastodon, while it had only been shared three times and liked four times on BlueSky.
I'm no social media expert, but it's amazing how reluctant people are to use Mastodon because of its lack of reach and interaction.
If we bring more people here, the Fediverse could become the de facto public square.
https://mastodon.social/@leavex/116127855796326212
@everton137 While there's fewer people on Mastodon, I feel like I've met more like-minded people here, and built more meaningful social ties.
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After about twelve hours, the same post had received more than 300 shares and likes on Mastodon, while it had only been shared three times and liked four times on BlueSky.
I'm no social media expert, but it's amazing how reluctant people are to use Mastodon because of its lack of reach and interaction.
If we bring more people here, the Fediverse could become the de facto public square.
https://mastodon.social/@leavex/116127855796326212
@everton137 It’s almost like the algorithm that the users have no control over isn’t showing people anti-fascist messaging… as if the people running the network don’t want people to see the anti-fascist messaging…
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After about twelve hours, the same post had received more than 300 shares and likes on Mastodon, while it had only been shared three times and liked four times on BlueSky.
I'm no social media expert, but it's amazing how reluctant people are to use Mastodon because of its lack of reach and interaction.
If we bring more people here, the Fediverse could become the de facto public square.
https://mastodon.social/@leavex/116127855796326212
They are not fooling anyone. BlueSky is Twitter 2.0 and will be enshittified in 3... 2... 1...
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@benroyce
It can easily stay small. If someone joins a small instance and only looks at the feed of people they follow, voila - small Fedi.@xinit @benroyce @MyWoolyMastadon @everton137 @engel No, I don't follow you nor you me yet I see your post. -
@everton137 @gabboman I'll give you an example, my lab discovered a magtape of the UNIX v4 source code from 1973. Did extremely well here, nothing at all over on bluesky.
https://discuss.systems/@ricci/115504720054699983
Which is fine, just a different audience.
I remember seeing that post, and I don’t really have a clue just how remarkable this is but it sounded fabulous 🤩
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After about twelve hours, the same post had received more than 300 shares and likes on Mastodon, while it had only been shared three times and liked four times on BlueSky.
I'm no social media expert, but it's amazing how reluctant people are to use Mastodon because of its lack of reach and interaction.
If we bring more people here, the Fediverse could become the de facto public square.
https://mastodon.social/@leavex/116127855796326212
RE: https://masto.ai/@GhostOnTheHalfShell/110697014050821679
When people are the algorithm
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After about twelve hours, the same post had received more than 300 shares and likes on Mastodon, while it had only been shared three times and liked four times on BlueSky.
I'm no social media expert, but it's amazing how reluctant people are to use Mastodon because of its lack of reach and interaction.
If we bring more people here, the Fediverse could become the de facto public square.
https://mastodon.social/@leavex/116127855796326212
Commercial and algorithm based platforms can’t be public squares.
A for-profit algorithm is shaped by spectacle and engagement, not discourse.
They only offer an illusion of a town square.
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After about twelve hours, the same post had received more than 300 shares and likes on Mastodon, while it had only been shared three times and liked four times on BlueSky.
I'm no social media expert, but it's amazing how reluctant people are to use Mastodon because of its lack of reach and interaction.
If we bring more people here, the Fediverse could become the de facto public square.
https://mastodon.social/@leavex/116127855796326212
A committed female journalist who campaigns for feminism and against BigTech recently had the following interactions for a post/trööt that she posted identically on Mastodon and Bluesky
On Mastodon
1 Like
0 Quotes
2 Retweets
2 CommentsOn Bluesky
831 likes
10 Quotes
214 Reposts
23 comments
12 BookmarksBut hey, if Elon Musk is a more relevant person for you to talk about, then so be it.
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A committed female journalist who campaigns for feminism and against BigTech recently had the following interactions for a post/trööt that she posted identically on Mastodon and Bluesky
On Mastodon
1 Like
0 Quotes
2 Retweets
2 CommentsOn Bluesky
831 likes
10 Quotes
214 Reposts
23 comments
12 BookmarksBut hey, if Elon Musk is a more relevant person for you to talk about, then so be it.
@fedinaut it would be interesting to check her posts to check the topic and the dynamic of interactions.
I wish we didn't need to talk about the richest individual on earth trying to destroy democracies.
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After about twelve hours, the same post had received more than 300 shares and likes on Mastodon, while it had only been shared three times and liked four times on BlueSky.
I'm no social media expert, but it's amazing how reluctant people are to use Mastodon because of its lack of reach and interaction.
If we bring more people here, the Fediverse could become the de facto public square.
https://mastodon.social/@leavex/116127855796326212
@everton137If we bring more people here, the Fediverse could become the de facto public square.
public institutions should switch to the fediverse and leave x behind. this would automatically increase the relevance of the network just like it did with twitter.
but convincing "normal" people to switch to some fediverse platform? i don't think this will work. all those who are still left outside the fediverse are folks who are totally out of their depths when having to choose one fediverse server to create an account for them? those people are totally fine to lecture you for hours on the intrinsic differences of certain car types oder different brands of makeup or breakfast cereal. but when told: "choose on of these servers, create an account and start" they all play dead whining :"what? how .. how should i do this?? i don't understand!?" ... and all the tech journalists join them in their wailing ... -
@fedinaut it would be interesting to check her posts to check the topic and the dynamic of interactions.
I wish we didn't need to talk about the richest individual on earth trying to destroy democracies.
it would be interesting to check her posts to check the topic and the dynamic of interactions.
Interesting, suddenly you want to look into that more closely.
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it would be interesting to check her posts to check the topic and the dynamic of interactions.
Interesting, suddenly you want to look into that more closely.
@fedinaut I didn't get it. Yes, it would be interesting to see one topic that was popular on BlueSky, but not on Mastodon and understand the contrast with the actual case.
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it would be interesting to check her posts to check the topic and the dynamic of interactions.
Interesting, suddenly you want to look into that more closely.
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I will have to learn it. It took me years to understand the FB tricks. But most people from the Belgian shepherd dog community, I know from FB. And sometimes we met in real and said "oh, is that you?"
Probably they have not been criticizing the T-Rump administration and they put more pictures of themwelves (I very seldom do, I don't like my pictures).The unofficial @FediTips can be very helpful in explaining the quirks of the various APIs in the fediverse.
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@MyWoolyMastadon @benroyce @engel @everton137
I don't think you're wrong: like life, the fediverse gives you back what you put into it.
Follow nobody, get nothing.
Spend a little time building you follow lists?
Value and fun ensue.@john @MyWoolyMastadon @benroyce @engel @everton137 very much so. With more people there IS a potential issue of posts “escaping containment” and getting interactions from random people, which may be good or bad depending on who it reaches. THAT can be extremely annoying, and it gets more likely the more people there are
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@john @MyWoolyMastadon @benroyce @engel @everton137 very much so. With more people there IS a potential issue of posts “escaping containment” and getting interactions from random people, which may be good or bad depending on who it reaches. THAT can be extremely annoying, and it gets more likely the more people there are
@oblomov @john @benroyce @engel @everton137
Yep. It's one of the issues with Federated instances. You edit or delete a post but your original thought is captured for the world to see by someone who quoted it. I guess there's other ways to lose control of what you put out there. The bigger Federated space becomes the more likely you'll regret letting your original 3am toot escape.
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@john @MyWoolyMastadon @benroyce @engel @everton137 very much so. With more people there IS a potential issue of posts “escaping containment” and getting interactions from random people, which may be good or bad depending on who it reaches. THAT can be extremely annoying, and it gets more likely the more people there are
@oblomov @john @MyWoolyMastadon @engel @everton137
i would disagree in that what you say is true for something like twitter
but on the fediverse you have controls over who gets to see what
you may say "i just want to post and not worry about followers only" but then you lose the ability to complain about a post "escaping containment"
public is public
nothing in the world gives you the protection of privacy when *you* chose to go public
it's your due diligence to scope what you say up front
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@oblomov @john @MyWoolyMastadon @engel @everton137
i would disagree in that what you say is true for something like twitter
but on the fediverse you have controls over who gets to see what
you may say "i just want to post and not worry about followers only" but then you lose the ability to complain about a post "escaping containment"
public is public
nothing in the world gives you the protection of privacy when *you* chose to go public
it's your due diligence to scope what you say up front
@benroyce @oblomov @john @engel @everton137
Reminds me of the 90s when a big tech firm, IBM maybe, revealed a secure PC system. They claimed that the information on it was inaccessible by anyone but the user. Then a reporter began to take photos of the information on the monitor. The pool of reporters had a good laugh at the unveiling.
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@benroyce @oblomov @john @engel @everton137
Reminds me of the 90s when a big tech firm, IBM maybe, revealed a secure PC system. They claimed that the information on it was inaccessible by anyone but the user. Then a reporter began to take photos of the information on the monitor. The pool of reporters had a good laugh at the unveiling.
@MyWoolyMastadon @oblomov @john @engel @everton137
yeah there are these odd voices i hear sometimes on the topic of privacy saying arguments that can be distilled down to "i want to post in public, but i don't want anyone i don't like to see my posts"
so privacy defilements must be fought
but there is nothing, nothing in the world, in the most privacy respecting technological system possibly devised by humanity, that can protect you if *you* choose to say something in public
