It’s not confusing. People just have different ideas about what the experience should be
Comment on Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media
helenslunch@feddit.nl 7 months ago
But he’s sympathetic to the fear that some Mastodon users have about their posts showing up in places they didn’t anticipate.
If they’re afraid of that, they joined the Fedi with a fundamental misunderstanding of how its supposed to work.
Chalk up another tally in the “Mastodon is confusing” column.
kaffiene@lemmy.world 7 months ago
helenslunch@feddit.nl 7 months ago
It’s not confusing.
The quotes were my indication that I don’t personally find it confusing, but a lot of people obviously do or it wouldn’t have that perception.
People just have different ideas about what the experience should be
If they have different ideas, it’s because they are confused about how it works. There’s only 1 way it’s ever going to work. There’s no debate to be had. No one gets to control the Fediverse, and no one needs permission to join it. That is inherent in it’s fundamental design.
kaffiene@lemmy.world 7 months ago
No they’re not confused. I’ve seen a lot of these discussions on Mastodon. They don’t misunderstand the tech, they’re actively trying to curate a community.
thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Exactly. There’s a core disagreement about whether making a public post means consenting to it being used for all purposes without consent (the multiple battles about consent-based search), but relatively few people are confused about whether bad actors will use it without consent.
0x1C3B00DA@fedia.io 7 months ago
But public posts federating across the network isn't an "experience". It's the basic functionality of the network.
kaffiene@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I know.
Carighan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah I was about to say, sure this isn’t ActivityPub, but the specific implementation of the federation should be an impolementation detail the user should never care about. You joined a federated system. Your content gets federated. Period.
cabbage@piefed.social 7 months ago
The same exact people will whine about how Bluesky should have been using ActivityPub in one second, and bitch about how they don't want their content bridged over there in the next. It's almost as if they haven't thought this through.
Of course anyone is free to join an instance that blocks the bridge - that's part of the beauty of the whole system.
Alpha71@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I have no idea what any of those words you just type meant…