The only threat to this burgeoning community is the same old divide & collapse nonsense that separates citizens under their overlords everywhere.

I would create accounts and start calling to defederate instances which allow non-polite (or politically incorrect or otherwise offensive) communities.

We didn’t just survive the trolls on reddit. We thrived amongst them. We can handle them. We can block them.

I want curatorial tools to curate my own feed. I absolutely 100% do NOT want any admins telling me what I can’t read. And going to another instance is no solution if that instance is blocked.

I don’t want to be on a purely polite ecosystem, or a purely right-wing-idiot ecosystem. I want access to everybody, and the tools to curate that experience.

The trolls do NOT have the power to take us down. But the admins definitely do.

Welcome to the Defediverse.

    • @[email protected]English
      6•1 year ago

      But now you are asking for the equivalent of every reddit user to make their own subreddit, host it and curate a feed to it, so they can browse it.

      I mean sure, but it’d be like saying, you don’t like the options for food, so grow your own, the seeds are there. You may want some junk food, but you may also want some organic vegitable produce or something inbetween. Supermarkets are double edges sowrds with everything inbetween, but to open your own/grow your own/source your own from the bulk suppliers, although possible, is astronomically more man hours of curation time.

      But with all that said, the initial and I think leading point of the post was not the indivdual filtering, but rather, that they think a divide and conquer approach would be most effective against a Fediverse. Where one would want to prevent the expansion and adoption of a fediverse as a threat of info hoarding.

      I’d be inclined to agree that as pack animals a NT person is going to want to group up in the largest instance. So, the larger the instance, the more likely they are going to want to join it. And should it get huge amounts of people, they’d get fomo.
      If there are as many instances as there are subreddit equivalents, for want of the accurate name, people just wont bother that much, no?

    • @[email protected]English
      0•1 year ago

      Again, people who don’t agree with the way an instance is managed can just take their luggage and leave for an instance they prefer or they can create their own instance.

      We can toss this right back at you. If you’re all for defederating anything you don’t like, there’s other instances to use.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•1 year ago

          it’s about what the majority wants, which seems to go against your opinion but in favor of mine

          You sure about that? You’re one of the main people that was pushing to defederate exploding-heads, which clearly hasn’t happened. Please elaborate how you’re “in the majority”

        • Matt PayneOPEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          Our complaints are part of an ongoing conversation about the future of the fediverse. This is a super important moment, and this is the right time for us to flesh out all the little details in our arguments. It’s fine for you to disagree, but it’s weird for you to jump in and complain about the fact that we’re sharing our opinions.

          We’re not exactly doing a mutiny or anything. We are sharing our opinions on a forum.

          You’re literally and explicitly intolerant.

            • Matt PayneOPEnglish
              3•1 year ago

              You are… taking part in the conversation with me. So you do think there’s a conversation to be had. And this whole site is a conversation site.

              You’re worked up. Relax. I haven’t hurt you.