@rysiek many people think they only have a choice between Feudal solutions. Much of this is because they are perceived as easier, and there also a big ‘real life’ social factor. There are lots of people who have used, say, Facebook for ages, and who are quite willing to share their knowledge, thus becoming ambassadors and unpaid sales people for the big brands.
Where do people go from Twitter
I know I am, literally, preaching to the converted here, but heard a BBC radio journalist this lunchtime saying how sad she was that Twitter was going downhill and she would have to switch to Instagram, i.e leave the domain of Lord Musk, for Lord Zuckenberg. No thought of the Fediverse. Some people are determined to live in a Feudal Internet.
re: imma blow your mind rn
@blaine @sivy @cwebber @knowtheory I remember writing in GML, a very long time ago. The similarity to the Unix man format is interesting and is probably because they both (probably) descended from runoff
@blaine I believe Governments should run Federated Social Media instances for themselves - really like the approach of @EU_Commission who seem to be getting the major European institutions using the fediverse to engage with citizens. Although a huge fan of libraries, I think apart from, e.g. The Bodleian, general public libraries (which The Bod is not) are too diffuse to be an instance. (but I may be wrong)
Wonderful Life
The Fediverse can be regarded as a ecosystem, and at present it is going through its Cambrian Explosion. As per the Wonderful Life Theory I hope we will emerge as “thousands of twigs on a vigorous bush”
@rbairwell @katebevan Publishers may also have a role as financial middle men - I pay for the BBC through a licence fee, and subscribe to The Guardian, Scientific American etc, and they distribute the money. For the Fediverse to succeed the issue of how it is funded has to be solved.
I have written a article on Setting up a small Pleroma server on a Debian host. I think it should work for Ubuntu too, in the hope that it encourages more people to try it, and distribute load from the larger public servers.
re: What model should journalism take on Mastodon?
@stokel Some subscription journals could also offer, as part of the benefits to their subscribers, an fediverse account such as @JohnLines@readers.theguardian.com - for example. The DNS name would differentiate them from staff without the need for an ‘official’ tag on their posts, but might be a hint as to how they feel about tofu.
re: What model should journalism take on Mastodon?
@gabriliberal @Eunomia I feel part of the answer lies in the federated nature of the Fediverse, together with the existing tree structured nature of the DNS. Only the official European commission can have Fediverse sites which end in .europa.eu. Your trust (or not) can be inherited from your trust in the domain.
re: Twitter Chaos
Twitter Chaos
From the BBC Twitter chaos after wave of blue tick impersonations - the fundamental problem is concentrating the problem of reputation in one central place. Also Twitter’s primary concern with reputation is its own and it is only concerned about the damage to the reputation of its users because the reflects on it.