Post AX14p2Q1wP2D3HNItk by kite@social.anoxinon.de
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(DIR) Post #AX14oOWMHSKTJK1nCy by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2023-06-24T11:03:24Z
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If there is even a single gram of truth to this…Any instance that goes along with such a thing will be lost to surveillance capitalism. I don’t care how large they are or who they are, any instance that becomes Meta’s bitch should be defederated immediately by all others. Let the largest few get swallowed up whole by Silicon Valley if they’re dumb enough to do it. The rest of us will rebuild.I really hope no one is stupid enough to take Meta up on this if it’s true. https://beach.city/@vantablack/110594120842443355
(DIR) Post #AX14oPH9TTl9eRvA92 by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2023-06-24T11:08:40Z
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I started on the Fediverse with Mastodon about seven years ago when I had ~42K followers on Twitter and zero here.Personally, I don’t care how many followers I lose. My tiny, ineffectual, instance of one will defederate with any instance, no matter how large, if this rumour is true.If this comes to pass, I’d urge those of you on the instances that become Meta’s lackeys to move to instances that are not if you’d like us to stay in touch.Remember, it’s about quality not quantity. Always.
(DIR) Post #AX14oPvv1uMxgszigi by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2023-06-24T11:19:12Z
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I’ve been shouting with my whole chest about the danger of large instances for as long as I can remember.Even if this rumour is not true today or even if the large instance admins decide to act intelligently and with backbone and refuse such an offer if it is true, the danger remains.You don’t have to wait for the ship to sink before taking action. If you’re on a huge instance, move to a smaller one. Spread yourselves thin. Make each instance a smaller target. Make the fediverse stronger.
(DIR) Post #AX14oQbOXhXvlWOqKu by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2023-06-24T11:33:31Z
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(And maybe some of you will now see why I’m designing the Small Web as a peer-to-peer web. Why ensuring that every node – every instance – is equal is essential to any system that wants to resist centralisation and corporate capture. Why if these places are extensions of ourselves, we must own and control them ourselves. It’s the difference between being a person and not a person in the digital age. It’s high time we understood this.)https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/#SmallWeb #humanRights #personhood
(DIR) Post #AX14oRTzGjDOUpwRQe by qwazix@bananachips.club
2023-06-24T12:08:03Z
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@aral how do you propose handling moderation in a theoretical peer to peer social space? Shared blocklists? Even then, if it's fast to create new single tenant instances won't spam be an issue?This is not criticism, it's a genuine question. Feel free to redirect me elsewhere to read if you wrote about this before.
(DIR) Post #AX14oSP3qWrvLqe1OC by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2023-06-24T12:13:04Z
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@qwazix The same way you moderate in real life as a person. By deciding who gets to follow you and disassociating yourself from the people you don’t want in your life.The system merely models the human being as we know it in physical space.
(DIR) Post #AX14oTbVNkPv4jTTQO by kite@social.anoxinon.de
2023-06-24T11:13:44Z
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@aral I don’t care about the number of followers but I do care about the personal connections lost. I recently lost about 50 followers over night and now can’t follow people on mastodon.social any more, that sucks. Some of them were mutuals from Twitter I valued talking to. Loosing a part of my social graph does hurt, emotionally. I’d be happy if we could find ways to avoid these kinds of things!
(DIR) Post #AX14olpHdG8Lag3jOq by prdan@mastodon.online
2023-06-24T11:59:56Z
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@kite @aral this is one reason to advocate for Aral’s small web. Then you decide who to federate with or not.
(DIR) Post #AX14p2Q1wP2D3HNItk by kite@social.anoxinon.de
2023-06-24T12:15:43Z
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@aral @prdan what I don’t really get about that small web thingy: what’s the difference to entirely distributed social networks like scuttlebutt?
(DIR) Post #AX14p36DPYmLA76zeS by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2023-06-24T12:22:34Z
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@kite @prdan Findability and availability. Every node has a physical, always-on, addressable place on the network. We don’t need immutable trees of data and gossip protocols and signaling servers beyond what’s in the existing infrastructure of the web. And so I hope this will lead to far greater simplicity and usability as well as allowing for emergent, extensible use cases and protocols. I see it as a bridge between the web and p2p for everyday people who use technology as an everyday thing.
(DIR) Post #AX2ssxK41JqtGqbc6S by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2023-06-25T08:12:15Z
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@fsologureng @MariaLiv @supernovae @atomicpoet Federating with Facebook will be on their terms. Do you think they’re stupid? That they’re spending goodness knows how much money to build something that will enable us to get their users to leave? The defining characteristic of their platforms is that they decide what their users see. Please, let’s not be naïve. You can’t lobby an algorithm.
(DIR) Post #AX2tRzRc7iSJzEqJQ8 by AIaYYAle4i1uKmKpqy.gme@bofh.social
2023-06-25T09:32:50.315357Z
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@aral @fsologureng @MariaLiv @supernovae @atomicpoet #Facebook is joining the #fediverse to persuade their users to stay. Facebook users are already leaving.
(DIR) Post #AX3J1SOYyUYqlWQNUG by supernovae@universeodon.com
2023-06-25T14:12:20Z
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@gme @atomicpoet @fsologureng @aral @MariaLiv If p92 users want to be free from algo, we should be making it easy for them to migrate instead of building walls to block them.Let p92 spend that money they have to open the doors so we can allow freedom of movement.anything less than that is failure on our behalf - failure of protocol and worse yet - failure of providing users agency.
(DIR) Post #AX3ToIAslLB4nWwzMe by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2023-06-25T14:28:16Z
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@supernovae Wow, yes, it really sounds like Facebook/Meta are idiots and they’re spending all this money so they can lose their main asset: users.I’m so glad we’re so clever and will just let them harm themselves.(And, ssshh, don’t let them hear us or they might get wise and stop.)Love the 4D-chess you’re playing there, pal. Truly inspiring stuff. @gme @atomicpoet @fsologureng @MariaLiv
(DIR) Post #AX3ToJyu2qmeOxMRyC by supernovae@universeodon.com
2023-06-25T16:16:46Z
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@aral @gme @atomicpoet @fsologureng @MariaLiv Hey, If you want to make the fediverse better and stronger then let’s talk. If you want to keep spreading unfounded claims all day long then we’re done. I’m not here to play games, i’m here to have fun and connect people.(no one said anything that your claiming and if you really want to know what is going on let’s get you on the phone and talk)