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I hear a lot of people talking about the Fediverse of many different technical backgrounds. It's true it would take a huge event to get non-technical people int
by maxbond 4y ago
I hear a lot of people talking about the Fediverse of many different technical backgrounds. It's true it would take a huge event to get non-technical people interested in the Fediverse - but that's exactly what I'm seeing.
They're not a solution in search of a problem. They're a solution a small, dedicated group of people have cared deeply about, but most people have ignored. But people have been unsatisfied with the centralized aspects of social media for a long time. They're not stupid; they see the way the algorithms are designed for engagement, and the toxicity that causes. They see how fragile it is that someone like Musk can just swoop in and sabotage the platform.
Network effects have made it difficult to adopt a decentralized solution. Well - lots of communities are looking for a home they won't have to leave for the same reason they did before. That's creating network effects in the opposite direction.
If you'd said this to me a few weeks ago I'd have been inclined to believe it. But things are in flux. Maybe the Fediverse won't take off, but it has a very really shot right now.
- TomSwirly 4y agoI simply don't get the problem with the "Fediverse". Mastodon works very much like Twitter and you can follow people on your server or another one with ease. You don't need to know anything about anything to do this.
- drstewart 4y agoGo ask your mom what algorithm she prefers for her content feed and report back.
- defrost 4y agoMeh, she seems happy following other emeritus professors on mathstodon.xyz and crafty types in weaving and bridge groups. How about your mom?
- throwntoday 4y ago
- maxbond 4y agoPresume good faith please. If you're unwilling to be surprised then you're not going to be able to take in new information. Cynicism causes blindness.
- throwntoday 4y ago
- maxbond 4y agoI will tell you honestly, that I believe you are the one letting your smugness cloud your view of reality, not the other commenter (indeed, I read their tone as matter of fact, not smug). No one is obligated to share their mother's personal information in order to prove a point to you. When you say you're presuming good faith and then include a string of insults in the same breathe, it's pretty unconvincing. Were you not entrenched in your position and holding other people's views in contempt, I think these observations would have been obvious to you before you hit "submit". I hope you'll consider taking a step back and reflecting on whether this is how you want to interact with people and what it is that brought you here.
- defrost 4y agoHeh. I'm not sure what troubles our flagged dead commenter more, that there are female math professors in the world, or that they have children that might comment on HN. FWiW: To the assertion that there exists at least one Emeritus Professor on mathstodon.xyz - https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao To the assertion that there exists at least one female Emeritus Professor of Mathematics - https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/cheryl-praeger https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/cheryl-pra... To the request that "that guy" provide social media accounts of his mother, her friends, their nom de guerres, discussions, etc .. I'm altogether unsure of whom "that guy" might be. Cheers for your response, I'd have gotten back sooner but <shrug> Timezones :-)
- drstewart 4y agoLike yours, she doesn't give a damn about the algorithm and thus isn't on Mastodon for that reason.
- defrost 4y agoThat's rather unlike my mother who is on a Mastodon instance and has a long and documented love of algorithms.
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