Maybe infinite growth doesn’t need to be the goal.
The typo in the title is really jarring for me. It’s losing, with a single o 🥹
It’s nice to let your soul loose once in a while…
Yeah same. I know what they mean but it’s not what’s there and it’s hard to take it seriously 🙈
Meta’s moral shortcomings are even more reasons to federate with them and try to win over users and pressure Meta to implement better digital rights as well.
“The terrorists moral shortcomings are even more reasons to negotiate with them and try to win them over.”
Don’t negotiate with terrorists.
Also the article sets up defederation from Meta as if it doesn’t do anything. I don’t think that’s true though.
The terrorists moral shortcomings are even more reasons to negotiate with them and try to win them over
You’re not negotiating with the terrorists (Meta), you’re engaging with the public to explain why the terrorists are bad and why they shouldn’t buy what’s being sold.
The argument is that we aren’t going to win this with sheer numbers or funding, so we need to slowly get people to understand why they are better off picking Mastodon/Fediverse over threads. Every instagram user is already being tossed into Threads, and you can’t bring those people over if they never see posts or content from the Fediverse
you can’t bring those people over if they never see posts or content from the Fediverse
It’s still possible. Reddit didn’t became popular because it federated with Digg.
When Lemmy will become the reference for human provided answers, people will join. How fast it will happen depends on how bad the experience on Reddit becomes.
That’s a good point too :)
Maybe. But that’s a big maybe. It could equally be that Threads becomes the most powerful entity on the Fediverse and what they do becomes law (like shutting off a certain instance).
Yea the other part of my reasoning is to try and prevent them from getting to that point.
The short version of which is that our biggest selling point is “Join Mastodon, you can see all the same content and do the same things, but it’s run by a non-profit instead of Facebook”. Defederation means we lose that point, and it’s going to be very difficult for Mastodon to compete with the money and manpower that facebook has.
“Join Mastodon to see content that you can’t see otherwise” will have a much harder time competing with “Join Threads to see content that you can’t see otherwise”
The Fediverse has no law. No one controls it.
In principle, yes. But if 99% of users are on one server, then that server has a disproportional amount of power in the network. If they choose to defederate another server, it’s essentially a death sentence.
Only if the users on that server treat it like a death sentence.
Most users would probably jump away from that server in that case, so in all likelihood they would.
That makes absolutely no sense. If they choose to defederate then it is no different than if they had never federated in the first place, which is what it sounds like you want.
It is different because if we defederate in the first place, then perhaps 99% of users would not congregate in that server.
What server are you referring to? Threads? They already have 99.9%. No one is going to join Threads because it’s “the biggest server”, they’re going to join because they’ve never heard of the Fediverse and want to chat with their friends and follow businesses and personalities.
If they know what the Fediverse is, they’re not going to join Threads, because no fully-informed person is going to make that decision.
XMPP hadn’t, until google put his hands on it.
If you defederate with them, I thought they could still see you.
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It can’t. But that was never the intention. Soul was never the intention. The intention was reducing reliance on proprietary and cancerous platforms.
I mean there are a shitload of reasons to not federate with Threads, but I feel like “it will federate ads to your server” is kinda the only one I should need to mention.
We need some basic rules,
- No single direction federation
- Users own their content and can licence it as they feel fit
With these 2 it would be hard to fuck up
Users “owning” their content in that way would be the instant death of the Fediverse. If anyone can put whatever nonsense license terms they want on each individual comment or post, how could that chaos possibly be federated?
A better approach would be to recognize that if you’re posting your words up on a giant billboard you’re not going to be able to control who sees them.
Users “owning” their content in that way would be the instant death of the Fediverse. If anyone can put whatever nonsense license terms they want on each individual comment or post, how could that chaos possibly be federated?
A better approach would be to recognize that if you’re posting your words up on a giant billboard you’re not going to be able to control who sees them.
Would quotes fall under fair use or copyright infringement?
According to a quick Google search (I’m no expert on copyright law), a sufficiently original email is automatically copyrighted. What constitutes “sufficiently original” seems to be pretty arbitrary.
So I guess if you post a short story, that’s automatically copyrighted. Commenting “this” is not. And then there’s a huge grey zone in the middle.
I think the same basically applies to… Anything. I mean a sufficiently original book is copyrighted but a sufficiently unoriginal book is not. Substitute book with any kind of media you want.
Makes you realize how finicky copyright is.
Is there single direction federation right now? I don’t think there is?
Also it would probably be more realistic for instances to put a default license on content. Users don’t want to bother choosing a license and most users wouldn’t even know what that means.
100% have instance user defaults etc those who want to custpmise further can do so its already part of peertube and pixelfed.
The soul is always lost
how can the Fediverse grow without loosing its soul in the process?
It can’t? Rather obvious that the “soul” of a community is defined by it’s members and the bigger the community the more mainstream this soul will become. Maybe the federation mechanic offers some solutions here, but that remains to be seen.
Does the fediverse need to maintain its “soul”? As long as it preserves user choice and corporate resistance, the rest isn’t required and can be maintained in those specific instances.
Can we stop all this philosophising and just get on with enjoying it for what it is? Please?
I’m really tired of hearing everybody’s thoughts on Meta and Threads. And souls. And money. And the future. There are too many captains of the ship who want their 15 minutes of steering time. Opinions ate like assholes, everybody has one.
If you want Meta and Threads in your life, then join it or an instance that is going to federate with it. If you don’t, move to an instance that won’t. Same applies for any community that your part of. Or start your own. That’s the beauty of this.
Can we please let it rest?
