Comment on Mastodon and today's fediverse are unsafe by design and unsafe by default
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 10 months agoi think this will happen. the fediverse software field is literally in its infancy. i cant believe people are complaining rigfht now when so many products havent even reached 1.0, but are getting close.
and seeing these products from the inside, these are not products that are impossible to one-click install for non-tech folks.. its going to happen.
you will absolutely see 3rd parties spin up services to auto-deploy a functioning fediverse server much the way a wordpress site is created. but its not now... maybe soon.
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 10 months ago
Thank you. This is essentially what I thought but couldn’t phrase like you did. There are already companies who spin up and host on demand like a wordpress site. We‘re most of the way there. We just need peeps to refrain from spinning the story the opposite way. People will read it and some will believe it, losing out on the opportunity. The author of the article tried to explain to me that they did mention that the fediverse has come a long way (which is far short from what you and I are trying to say). This shows me that some people just cant judge the huge potential and the fact that human discipline or lack thereof is more of a problem than software atm.
thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
I didn’t say the fediverse has come a long way. I said that many people on well-moderated instances have good experiences – which has been true since 2017. In general though I’d say there was a brief period of rapid progress on this front in the early days of Mastodon in 2016/2017, and since then progress has been minimal. Lemmy for example has much weak moderation functionality than Mastodon. Akkoma, Bonfire, Hubzilla etc are better but have minimal adoption.
And @originallucifer Ipeople have been complaining about this for years – it was an issue in 2011 with Diaspora, 2016 with Gnu social, 2017 with Mastodon, etc etc etc – so it’s not a matter of fediverse software as a whole being in its infancy. Even Lemmy’s been around for almost four years at this point. It’s just that the developers haven’t prioritized this.