Frankly, the fact that nobody is paying attention to us here might be the secret superpower of the platform.
@paninid
Maybe. I think about it in a few different ways:
1) fedi is decentralized. That means that you can get your own, very small bubble, with your own interests. That is a superpower in that way you describe, as in: nobody needs to pay attention to those smaller bubbles. Think of it as many smaller fediverses.
2) fedi is a single huge fediverse. Here, the superpower is not only decentralization (no single owner), but also the decentralized/distributed moderation. On huge networks like "X" (and X), there basically is no longer any moderation, because they'd have to hire hundreds or thousands of people to properly do that job. And they have to ask each other about specific moderation guidelines, etc. On fedi, each instance has its own moderator(s), often small teams of individuals, or even single persons. They don't have to discuss things, and if they need to, it's much faster and more dynamic. Furthermore, if I (the user) don't agree, I can just move to a different instance, so the mod team doesn't have to find "the perfect guidelines that work for everyone", they can just build guidelines as they want.
@benroyce
Maybe. I think about it in a few different ways:
1) fedi is decentralized. That means that you can get your own, very small bubble, with your own interests. That is a superpower in that way you describe, as in: nobody needs to pay attention to those smaller bubbles. Think of it as many smaller fediverses.
2) fedi is a single huge fediverse. Here, the superpower is not only decentralization (no single owner), but also the decentralized/distributed moderation. On huge networks like "X" (and X), there basically is no longer any moderation, because they'd have to hire hundreds or thousands of people to properly do that job. And they have to ask each other about specific moderation guidelines, etc. On fedi, each instance has its own moderator(s), often small teams of individuals, or even single persons. They don't have to discuss things, and if they need to, it's much faster and more dynamic. Furthermore, if I (the user) don't agree, I can just move to a different instance, so the mod team doesn't have to find "the perfect guidelines that work for everyone", they can just build guidelines as they want.
@benroyce
mastodon's like real life social life, in that it's *social*: people are different. different standards of social interaction, different interests, and they form into groups
as opposed to plastic "social" monocultures of centralized corporate social media. which you would think people would break from, have an uneasy reaction to. instead, many conform themselves to the corporate product, become a corporate product. bizarre
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