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It brings into question, does the concept of a Fediverse subvert having a variety of communities with different cultures? Imagine putting the Meta/Twitter/Redd

It brings into question, does the concept of a Fediverse subvert having a variety of communities with different cultures? Imagine putting the Meta/Twitter/Reddit world behind you, posting on Bluesky/Mastodon, and then your content is showing up on Threads next to influencer garbage, AI slop, culture wars, crypto spam, pillow ads. And just as bad or worse, content from those places flooding your parachute community. Those sites function best now as quarantine.

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zdragnar 1y ago
> then your content is showing up on Threads next to influencer garbage, AI slop, culture wars, crypto spam, pillow ads. Isn't that the whole point of the fediverse? You're distributing your content to other people and lose control of the context it is displayed in.
- add-sub-mul-div 1y ago
  But, like many other ideas in tech, it started as a good sounding idea but it's worth questioning now if it will be good in practice. When the idea was birthed we didn't know the landscape/hellscape social media would become in the 2020s.
lurk2 1y ago
This already happens. 4chan is mostly screenshots from Reddit, Reddit is mostly screenshots from Twitter, and all of the short form video platforms (Instagram, YouTube) copy trends that originate on TikTok.
- add-sub-mul-div 1y ago
  It's good when specific content goes viral across platforms. I've seen many good tiktoks but I never want to have the app installed or scroll through it, subject to their algorithm. It just won't be good when some high quality small or mid sized community absorbs everything posted to Threads or Tiktok, for example. That's when it loses its identity.
  - lurk2 1y ago
    I’m not talking about the kind of cross-platforming viral content you’re describing. What I’ve noticed usually ends up happening is that platforms just end up becoming mutually-perpetuating surveillance machines. e.g. “You’ll never believe what these LIBTARDS on Reddit said,” “I can’t BELIEVE what $tech_ceo said about $issue on Twitter,” and that’s where the problem lies. You used to get specific kinds of content from specific platforms, whereas now if you go on reels you’re as likely to come across a subway surfers AskReddit video or a Twitter screenshot set to music as you are an actual video.
    - add-sub-mul-div 1y ago
      Not ideal, I agree, but still not as bad as every site wholesale becoming the superset of multiple sites.
NicuCalcea 1y ago
Both instance admins and individual users can block other instances (at least in Mastodon), so if you don't want to show up on Threads or see content from there, you can do that.

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zdragnar 1y ago

> then your content is showing up on Threads next to influencer garbage, AI slop, culture wars, crypto spam, pillow ads. Isn't that the whole point of the fediverse? You're distributing your content to other people and lose control of the context it is displayed in.

add-sub-mul-div 1y ago
But, like many other ideas in tech, it started as a good sounding idea but it's worth questioning now if it will be good in practice. When the idea was birthed we didn't know the landscape/hellscape social media would become in the 2020s.

lurk2 1y ago

This already happens. 4chan is mostly screenshots from Reddit, Reddit is mostly screenshots from Twitter, and all of the short form video platforms (Instagram, YouTube) copy trends that originate on TikTok.

add-sub-mul-div 1y ago
It's good when specific content goes viral across platforms. I've seen many good tiktoks but I never want to have the app installed or scroll through it, subject to their algorithm. It just won't be good when some high quality small or mid sized community absorbs everything posted to Threads or Tiktok, for example. That's when it loses its identity.
- lurk2 1y ago
  I’m not talking about the kind of cross-platforming viral content you’re describing. What I’ve noticed usually ends up happening is that platforms just end up becoming mutually-perpetuating surveillance machines. e.g. “You’ll never believe what these LIBTARDS on Reddit said,” “I can’t BELIEVE what $tech_ceo said about $issue on Twitter,” and that’s where the problem lies. You used to get specific kinds of content from specific platforms, whereas now if you go on reels you’re as likely to come across a subway surfers AskReddit video or a Twitter screenshot set to music as you are an actual video.
  - add-sub-mul-div 1y ago
    Not ideal, I agree, but still not as bad as every site wholesale becoming the superset of multiple sites.

NicuCalcea 1y ago

Both instance admins and individual users can block other instances (at least in Mastodon), so if you don't want to show up on Threads or see content from there, you can do that.