@shlee @snarfed.org @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenews
eh ... as with Threads + fedipact, there's likely a spectrum where the louder voices can mask the "middle of the road" voices, for better or worse. Anti-Bridge-Pact?
What exactly is the difference between this and a new instance? I'm genuinely unclear?
Like, do kbin instances respect search indexing preferences? What about other commercial instances like moth?
Is it the relative size of bksy?
jbwharris@mstdn.ca 4 months ago
@maegul @shlee @snarfed.org @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenews Agreed. I just want to actually interact with people I actually know on other platforms from the comfort of Mastodon. I miss people I actually know in real life.
maegul@hachyderm.io 4 months ago
@jbwharris @shlee @snarfed.org @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenews
Yea, for me, the whole "I want a relatively anti-social social media" motive of many on masto seems like something that requires better institutional/infrastructural devices rather than merely distributing it amongst defed, personal blocks and outcries over opt-in/opt-out.
At some point, it seems, some people just want a different system than what this is. Like a closed FOSS Discord.
jonquass@techhub.social 4 months ago
@maegul
I just checked and Mastodon does have a whitelist mode instances can use of they really want control over their data.
"This mode is intended for private use only, such as in academic institutions or internal company networks, as it effectively creates a data silo, which is contrary to Mastodon's mission of decentralization. This setting was known as WHITELIST_MODE prior to 3.1."
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/config/#:~:text=This%20mode%20is%20intended%20for,as%20WHITELIST_MODE%20prior%20to%203.1.
@jbwharris @shlee @snarfed.org @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenews
maegul@hachyderm.io 4 months ago
@jbwharris @shlee @snarfed.org @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenews
Which, TBC, is all good by me.
It's just that the amount of noise and "drama" necessary to maintain this constant vigilance against what a decentralised social media protocol naturally allows seems like a potential dead end with diminishing returns.
EG, many on bsky that those here would like to talk to have probably left here because of this "noise" however much they align with the values here.
shiri@foggyminds.com 4 months ago
@maegul @shlee @snarfed.org @jbwharris I've seen this for a while, many people on here are highly xenophobic. They found a place for themselves and they now want to close the gates on anyone else joining, seeing "foreigners" (other platforms) as threats rather than a foundational part of how this service works.
On top of that, they often demand ideological purity... it's actually one of the reasons Twitter survives and people use other shitty platforms... because they hopped on here and found only hostility to any way in which their social norms differed from what people considered acceptable.