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Fediverse is a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe".

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Fediverse hot takes: (hachyderm.io)
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Fediverse hot takes:

  1. The only true client is the browser.

  2. Microblogging be damned.

  3. it’s the instances/servers that are federated, not the users (ie us) … and damn that too.

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#fediverse

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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8) The ideal fediverse is (?):

  1. Everyone is on single-user instances with much personal control (hosted by one of many services).
  2. People congregate in various "platforms as communities", which is where the real moderating and community management happens.
  3. A variety of software and platform options exist for both the user-instances and community platforms.

The flaw of the #fediverse is that it conflates hosting and community services (ie, 1 & 2) and so underperforms at both.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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9) Like #Twitter and #BlueSky, the fediverse also likely has had its well poisoned ... by "tech libertarianism".

Twitter: "Nazi bar", BlueSky: "Crypto scam". Fediverse: "tech libertarianism fanatics".

You may disagree, but others, perhaps many (?) see it that way and feel that the virtues of a properly designed and managed centralised social media are superior to chaotic volunteer-run decentralisation.

Maybe we should be forced to "work it all out together in the public square"?