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Oh wow so I'm not the only one who felt like this. Having different unsynchronized servers has been a gigantic turn off for me. That's like the one thing that

Oh wow so I'm not the only one who felt like this. Having different unsynchronized servers has been a gigantic turn off for me. That's like the one thing that shouldn't be the case with anything social online.

postpawl 3y ago
The centralized platforms seem doomed to reach a point where they’re squeezing as much cash out of users as they can while users provide their content for free. If we need to create multiple accounts to fight back against enshittification, I think that’s a fairly minor downside for increased competition.
- pessimizer 3y ago
  Creating and managing multiple accounts is also shitty, if not enshittification. If people have to choose between shitty-hard and shitty-easy, they're going to choose shitty-easy or just opt out entirely. Twitter is just text messages as spectator sport, people can do without it. The real problem is a narrowing range of media in general through active state action, continued consolidation, and the fact that tech multibillionaires just buy outlets like twitter, The Atlantic, the WaPo etc. and use them for egotistical social manipulation instead of to inform and stimulate important discussion. If it weren't for that, twitter would be the celebrity bore that it always was before weird twitter took the piss out of it. Now it's serving as an outlet for every frustration because those frustrations have been censored out of traditional media.
johnnyanmac 3y ago
I mean, Decentralization sells itself on that. Look how well centralized platforms have done this year.
- CaptainFever 3y ago
  Decentralisation doesn’t necessarily mean federation (the source of “unsynchronised servers”), though. RSS/Atom is still a thing (and more widely supported than ActivityPub). The only issue for microblogs is needing multiple accounts for comment sections, which can be solved by SMTP, anonymous guest posting, social login, or WebMentions (which I don’t really like due to the complexity and federation, but thought I’d mention).

postpawl 3y ago

The centralized platforms seem doomed to reach a point where they’re squeezing as much cash out of users as they can while users provide their content for free. If we need to create multiple accounts to fight back against enshittification, I think that’s a fairly minor downside for increased competition.

pessimizer 3y ago
Creating and managing multiple accounts is also shitty, if not enshittification. If people have to choose between shitty-hard and shitty-easy, they're going to choose shitty-easy or just opt out entirely. Twitter is just text messages as spectator sport, people can do without it. The real problem is a narrowing range of media in general through active state action, continued consolidation, and the fact that tech multibillionaires just buy outlets like twitter, The Atlantic, the WaPo etc. and use them for egotistical social manipulation instead of to inform and stimulate important discussion. If it weren't for that, twitter would be the celebrity bore that it always was before weird twitter took the piss out of it. Now it's serving as an outlet for every frustration because those frustrations have been censored out of traditional media.

johnnyanmac 3y ago

I mean, Decentralization sells itself on that. Look how well centralized platforms have done this year.

CaptainFever 3y ago
Decentralisation doesn’t necessarily mean federation (the source of “unsynchronised servers”), though. RSS/Atom is still a thing (and more widely supported than ActivityPub). The only issue for microblogs is needing multiple accounts for comment sections, which can be solved by SMTP, anonymous guest posting, social login, or WebMentions (which I don’t really like due to the complexity and federation, but thought I’d mention).