Comment on Bluesky, the Fediverse, and the future of social media
lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 months agoThe people here and their attitude towards people who don’t agree with them are the problem.
And that’s a structural problem. The ActivityPub was supposed to allow both the “average person” and the “nerd” to coexist in the same platform, without one getting too much in the way of the other; it doesn’t.
I’m not sure on a good solution for that.
richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 2 months ago
They don’t coexist peacefully in life, why would they do it here?
IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My nerd and techy friends, even the more progressive ones, do just fine in most places.
Lemmy has the extremist and most angry.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 months ago
They tolerate each other enough to get each into a corner and not interact much.
And yet that is not what we see in the Fediverse. Those “corners” don’t exist here.
demesisx@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Are you sure? In my experience, they defederate from each other.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 months ago
I’m almost sure.
Your typical instance only defeds another as a last case scenario, due to deep divergences or because of blatantly shitty admin or user behaviour. But, past that, they’re still willing to let some shit to go through - because if you defederate too many other instances, with no good reason, you’re only hurting yourself.
That’s simply not enough to create those “corners”. Specially when all this “nerds vs. normies*” thing is all about depth - for example the normie wants some privacy, but the nerd goes all in, but they still care about the same resources.
*I hate this word but it’s convenient here.