Post A6PU8AkQitPcaUL8Xg by wjmaggos@liberal.city
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(DIR) Post #A6FTDHynJdNYBGK6rI by wjmaggos@liberal.city
2021-04-14T20:45:03Z
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Outside of kidnapping etc, the internet means you can't really be silenced anymore. And they can only reduce your potential for being heard if we let them. If we use centralized platforms others control or accept others' framing of people we don't know. #fediverse #CancelCulture
(DIR) Post #A6FTxnA9i2UkDMoOKO by Laconicif@tryliberty.org
2021-04-14T20:53:30.947761Z
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@wjmaggos I like the premise but something needs to be done to decentralize the DNS first before this is actually trueLike this https://ens.domains/ or something better
(DIR) Post #A6M4frdws1cOaa7mJU by bastiat@tryliberty.org
2021-04-18T01:13:11.930786Z
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@Laconicif @wjmaggos Plenty of second later internet protocols. Lack of cohesion and use is a real downer :(
(DIR) Post #A6M4hOb3pskv58VJVA by bastiat@tryliberty.org
2021-04-18T01:13:29.319968Z
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@Laconicif @wjmaggos Plenty of second layer internet protocols. Lack of cohesion and use is a real downer :(
(DIR) Post #A6PU8AFaZYk52puVTE by Varus@neckbeard.xyz
2021-04-19T16:13:59.917317Z
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@wjmaggos Drawback of the fediberse is that you're not Interacting with the masses and often interacting with people who have similar views. Central platforms allow the clashing of people with different opinions which is the opposite of an echo chamber.
(DIR) Post #A6PU8AkQitPcaUL8Xg by wjmaggos@liberal.city
2021-04-19T16:42:31Z
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@Varus true for now mostly because of how small the fediverse is in comparison. my last sentence was meant more for the collective. It is only the choices that "WE" are making that are limiting our freedom of expression now. If "WE" all chose to embrace decentralized communications and reject cancel culture. while I'll admit "one platform" means more stumbling on other views, I think that's small compared to what happens in our timelines. and "one platform" demands more moderation.
(DIR) Post #A6SyzUzJmVnOoAWlpA by Varus@neckbeard.xyz
2021-04-19T17:21:32.540958Z
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@wjmaggos All valid points that I agree with. If everyone really cared and wanted to nothing would stop them. But people don't like to do things they don't know about or not familiar with. Trying to get people to grasp the concept of the fediverse has a higher curve than telling people to make an account on Twitter. I suppose its true that if the audience got larger the effect of an echo chamber would be smaller. Ideally I think everyone should be on one platform with free speech so that all sides can interact with each other. What stuff like parler did was divide people on left and right schesim.
(DIR) Post #A6SyzVNQKt4u0vo1Oi by search_social@neckbeard.xyz
2021-04-21T09:12:32.061686Z
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So I think we all agree that Fediverse is great but also has some Achilles’ Heels. For example, Onboarding/Discovery. It’s a big drag to find what’s my first instance server, which client do I use, what’s the first person that I follow that actually posts content I care about; nevermind installing and figuring them all out once you choose them. Once this “activation barrier” is crossed then the experience is excellent and snowballs naturally as you follow more and more interesting people who talked with your very first one.Now the traditional solution to this problem is to make a list. A list of instance servers, a list of clients, a list of people you can follow. And I do think these are all great things to have, despite being centralized. Yet they seem to be difficult to make and to not attract much people.So here’s an idea - we make the inverse of a centralized list - a decentralized, single-instance single-client tutorial. For example, a webpage or png with specific instructions of how to:Download and install the specific client Husky on an Android phoneMake an account on the specific instance No Agenda SocialFollow the specific account Interesting Engineering and then view a feed of only people that you follow (so, only IntEng threads and people that participate in them to start with until you naturally follow some interesting people who happen to participate in IntEng threads)The advantage of this approach is we’ve made signing up for Fediverse as easy as signing up for Twitter again - one client, one instance, one feed.The disadvantage is, in this specific tutorial only, we’ve lost the flexibility of the Fediverse.HOWEVER, if each of the 6,000 instances on the fediverse makes such a tutorial tailored to their instance, then SUDDENLY we have 6,000 decentralized onboarding tutorials solving the Onboarding/Discovery problem of the Fediverse.Instead of trying the CENTRALIZED approach of having a single CENTRALIZED master index list that we spam everywhere, we embrace and embody the DECENTRALIZED approach of having 6,000 different possible Onboarding/Discovery paths and letting each instance’s members shill their specific, customized tutorials to their local friend groups and networks (which are presumably tailored to the matching politics and moderation preferences as their instance).Finally, we might collaborate with each other to make tutorial “templates” or “form letters” that can be mixed-and-matched; like swapping clients or swapping instances along with a space for a short invite blurb. #YearOfDecentralization #YearOfTheFediverse .@Varus @wjmaggosactivation-energy.jpg
(DIR) Post #A6TY41cXtOrJZRlmfw by wjmaggos@liberal.city
2021-04-21T15:45:27Z
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@search_social @Varus right. it's the community first model, adding on an app recommendation. that's really the advantage of the fediverse, if you can find a decent sized commuity with a server. the local feed gives you an immediate reason to use it. what we need to do is find the communities with a person geeky & social enough to both run a server and help people onboard. those can be characteristics hard to find in one person :)