Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms

• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Just because they know using Mastodon they are bad people? What the hell kind of take is that?

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  • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m just saying, because someone is a scientist absolutely does not absolve them of human fallibility. I just don’t like the take of “because scientist, therefore smart or wise” and that’s not true, they’re just (hopefully) educated and credible in their one specific field and nothing else.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Right but Mastodon is irritating to use isn’t it it has actual problems. I think it’s intellectually dishonest to pretend that it doesn’t have problems and therefore anyone not using it is being ignorant.

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      • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’ve been using mastodon for nearly a decade now. The major thing I think is missing from ActivityPub is a decentralized/federated way of doing auth. The ideal for me in ActivityPub is having a profile/DID service provider that you then can attach to services. This would theoretically be like having just a federated identity (or however many identities you want) that you can then go to a lemmy instance or mastodon instance etc and “log in with federated ID” like log in with Google but not dependent on a corporation.

        Auth and identity in general is definitely the biggest hurdle with ActivityPub. Right now it’s a bunch of distinct and non-tied profiles, which isn’t necessarily bad, but many people would like an easier way of doing this. Instead of saying “which lemmy do I want to join” it’s just “which identity service do I want?” and then go to and use any mastodon or lemmy or Pixelfed service with that single account. There’s many ways to do this, but it’s definitely possible and it’s being looked into.

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  • earphone843@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s a take that apparently requires a lack of reading comprehension on your part.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      And absolute rudeness on yours.

      I’m just a little sick of this attitude that everyone on here seems to have that everyone should be using Mastodon without consideration for the fact that it does have quite a large number of downsides. It’s ridiculous not to accept that fact and not to want to improve the platform so that the downside aren’t there and then people would use it.

      You can’t berate people for not using the product you want them to use if the product you want them to use is annoying to use

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