[HN Gopher] A Year of New Avenues
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       A Year of New Avenues
        
       Author : tysone
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2022-12-07 19:12 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | UncleOxidant wrote:
       | It's got a hopeful tone, but I'm a bit confused by his advice to
       | ignore mastodon. The fediverse is more than just mastodon.
       | Mastodon is just one use of ActivityPub. If anything exemplifies
       | the DIY nature he's trying to promote it would seem to be the
       | fediverse.
        
         | phlipski wrote:
         | My take was that he was saying ignore Mastodon like you
         | would/should ignore Twitter - that platform isn't conducive to
         | constructive online interaction.
         | 
         | "When you tell me about Twitter vs. Mastodon, I hear that you
         | got rid of the flesh-eating piranhas and replaced them with
         | federated flesh-eating piranhas. No thanks, I'm still not
         | swimming in that pool!"
        
           | neogodless wrote:
           | That doesn't refute that Mastodon is only one part of the
           | Fediverse, nor does it address that federation actually
           | changes the behavior of the social graph (in contrast to
           | centralized Twitter) due to where the power to moderate and
           | block lies.
           | 
           | It's not as simple as "the interface is similar, so Mastodon
           | is a (federated) replacement for Twitter."
        
             | Kiro wrote:
             | Why would it refute that? No-one said Mastodon is the
             | Fediverse. The author is talking about Mastodon
             | specifically.
        
           | UncleOxidant wrote:
           | Yeah, that has not been my experience on mastodon (the
           | "flesh-eathing piranhas" bit). It's much more civil likely
           | due to the fact that algorithms aren't boosting outrage on
           | mastodon like they are on twitter. Sure, the user interface
           | looks superficially similar to twitter, but the user
           | experience is much different.
        
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