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I was a user for many years. I grew frustrated to the point of disillusionment with the constant fighting between admins and prominent personalities, the attack

I was a user for many years. I grew frustrated to the point of disillusionment with the constant fighting between admins and prominent personalities, the attacks, the fracturing of the network... I just want to be able to talk to who I want to. Ran my own instance too, simply not blocking some guy or other is enough to get you blocked by others. The network architecture is flawed from the get go unfortunately, it's prone to this type of fracturing that makes it not really conducive to anything other than in tribe virtue signaling and echo chambers. You simply cannot get on a server and talk to anyone you want, it's not possible. I've given up on it and moved to Nostr. A lot of fediverse people have been dipping their toes in as of late, but I took the dive, I see where the wind is blowing. The relief I felt when I no longer had to manage the appearance of my social interaction, there's a chilling effect there which is strangling mastodon and the fediverse as an actual social network and it cannot be fixed.

talldayo 2y ago
That's a fair complaint, but this is a problem inherent to every decentralized network I've tried. Every network worth it's salt has to have a way to deal with adversarial users posting spam, ads or illegal content. Some instances go further with their social signalling but I don't really care enough about those types to notice. As someone that doesn't feel the need to have everyone in one feed, Mastodon is just my happy place. If Nostr users aren't consuming ActivityPub streams, they may never see my posts and I'm perfectly OK with that.
- big-green-man 2y ago
  It's inherent to a network of federated servers each with their own admin, you can create a network topology where users aren't reliant on an admin and where they can freely communicate with each other regardless what anyone else says if they want, you just have to change the network topology.

talldayo 2y ago

That's a fair complaint, but this is a problem inherent to every decentralized network I've tried. Every network worth it's salt has to have a way to deal with adversarial users posting spam, ads or illegal content. Some instances go further with their social signalling but I don't really care enough about those types to notice. As someone that doesn't feel the need to have everyone in one feed, Mastodon is just my happy place. If Nostr users aren't consuming ActivityPub streams, they may never see my posts and I'm perfectly OK with that.

big-green-man 2y ago
It's inherent to a network of federated servers each with their own admin, you can create a network topology where users aren't reliant on an admin and where they can freely communicate with each other regardless what anyone else says if they want, you just have to change the network topology.