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tallshipThank you for the optimistic PoV on the entrance of others to the <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/desoc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeSoc</a> of the Fediverse. It is an optimism that I share - especially with Matthias' announcement just an hour ago that his team behind the development of the <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/wordpress" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordPress</a> ActivityPub plugin has just released version 2.0.0 - considering the enormous footprint of WordPress installations across the entire Internet belonging to both common, everyday individuals and companies alike, of every shape and size, this is HUGE news.It instantly, overnight, positions common folks and businesses to leap into the freedoms afforded them by the existing, privacy respecting, <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/foss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> based Fediverse that hitherto was... well, a bit of a leap for them psychologically. But now they have a familiar platform with which to begin a journey through the minefields of the deprecated, privacy mining, monolithic silos; its proprietors programming their masses of <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/subjugated_chattel" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#subjugated_chattel</a> into livestock holding pens, where they are weighed, measured, packaged, placed into inventory, and sold.That does raise the issue of an error in your assertions however. You mentioned, <code>"instances in Meta's fediverses and on Bluesky"</code>.The truth however, the reality, is that each are merely a single instance - One big monolithic silo, as described above, with the same incentives of monetization through privacy mining techniques that have made them the dreadnoughts that they are; at least in the case of <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/meta" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Meta</a> (Threads).Bluesky is of that vertically scaling market as well, but much smaller than the <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/faceplant" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Faceplant</a> and <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/instaspam" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InstaSPAM</a> engines operated by Meta, and now their new spearhead into the DeSoc space occupied by ActivityPub and other decentralized or federated protocol based, horizontally scaling instances.<a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/bluesky" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bluesky</a> hasn't actually shown their hand yet to the general public, but already, they've disenfranchised (fired) much of their talent; some, actually principal architects of their monolith who were frustrated and disillusioned with the direction Jay has been taking the company - moving further and further away from the disowned public community they spawned, organized, and abandoned following the initial trials and tests of the open source preview version of what became <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/atp" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ATP</a> protocol (ATX). Even Jack has moved on and embraced yet another horizontally scaling protocol in the DeSoc space, <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/nostr" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nostr</a>, and it's already bridged and interoperating flawlessly with the ActivityPub powered portion of the Fediverse, which in turn interoperates with instances running other protocols such as <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/nomad" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nomad</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/ostatus" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OStatus</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/streams" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Streams</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/diaspora" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Diaspora</a>, and <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/zot" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ZOT</a>... all of them part of the Fediverse.Many of the extant <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/activitypub" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActivityPub</a> powered instances in the Fediverse merely need to install these capabilities with a couple of clicks to enable this interoperability, while others bridge the divide through infrastructure developed and deployed over the past year or so. What will be Meta's use case here for their business product? That's the main question I think folks need to address - not punish the good people on the so-called evil side of the divide, the hitherto subjugated chattel that populate Marks so-called Metaverse or whatever he thinks he can compel people to adopt and endure. The point is, childish, domain level blocking by juvenile minds operating ActivityPub powered <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> server instances only serves to paint themselves (and the users who have to date trusted those admins with being told what they can and cannot see and do) into a corner where they effectively cancel themselves, and find that their users have migrated to other spaces... maybe WordPress, where they truly control their own destiny in the DeSoc space and can now fully participate and engage with others - but on their own terms, not someone else's.And that, I believe, is what the whole thing has always been about, going back as far as <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/angelfire" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AngelFire</a> and <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/geocities" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GeoCities</a> :) I do agree with you that we should indeed embrace these common, everyday individuals who, through their programmed ignorance, are mostly clueless as to exactly what the Fediverse is, and more importantly, has always promised for them. This is an opportunity, like Steve Austin, (the Six Million Dollar Man): "We can rebuild them, we have the technology, we can make them better, stronger, faster..."One more thing I should correct you on, the Fediverse is an internetwork of networks, on the Internet - there are no fediverses, Fediverse is itself a plurality, but your intent wasn't lost on me.Great article, I enjoyed the read and most of all, your optimistically tempered intent. Thanks for sharing and I hope to see much more from you in the future! <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/tallship" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tallship</a>⛵ .

Ewen Bell 📷Two major LoL's today, from LinkedIn and IG.I can't recall logging into LinkedIn over the last decade but apparently "I'm on a roll". I've been self employed for 23 years thanks.Meanwhile IG have discovered that moderating spam on their platform is super time consuming, so they're not going to bother anymore.Slow clap.<a href="https://photog.social/tags/InstaSpam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InstaSpam</a>

tallship<a class="u-url mention" href="https://xoxo.zone/@fraying" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@fraying</a>Hi Derek!And greetings from the remote mountain regions of <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/humboldt" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Humboldt</a> where we export the genetics for those 🌺 flowers 🤘💀🤘Anyway...I'm trying to your post in which you both misconstrued and misinformed the reader with alarmist, and generally misunderstood narrative.Specifically, and respectfully:>***"I wonder if people using mastodon know that, without section 230, no one could legally afford to run a mastodon instance in the US. Section 230 protects what we do here every day. Politicians threatening 230 are threatening free speech on the internet."***Although we'll go over both sentences, the part that I really take exception to is the first one:- "I wonder if people using mastodon know that, without section 230, no one could legally afford to run a mastodon instance in the US."I quoted you twice for emphasis, because what you said is simply NOT TRUE, at all Derek, but who would want to run a single user mastodon server instance anyway?Okay a select few, but it's not economical to do so - here's why:It's such <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/bloatware" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bloatware</a> and a #resource_hog compared to other, more capable and featureful <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> servers, like <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/pleroma" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pleroma</a>, #Takahē, <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/epicyon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Epicyon</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/akkoma" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Akkoma</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/calckey" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Calckey</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/soapbox" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Soapbox</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/friendica" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Friendica</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/socialhome" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Socialhome</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/microblogpub" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MicroblogPub</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/misskey" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Misskey</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/smithereen" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Smithereen</a>, and the list goes on and on for a while; a veritable laundry list of platforms endowed with more feature rich, more resource and energy conserving footprints.You could call mastodon the white elephant in the room when it comes to kruft, waste of energy and resources, or lack of the most desired features by it's traditional userbase (although people are nowadays migrating their accounts to these other Fediverse platforms in ever increasing numbers).Like you, I'm also a staunch proponent of Section 230, as it was originally intended and written - to protect publishers, NOT editors. But most of the conservative agendas to which you refer only seek to remove protections for sites that cross that line between that of <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/publisher" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#publisher</a> to that of <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/editor" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#editor</a> anyway - so as long as you don't interfere with a user's <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/speech" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#speech</a> those deprecated silos would have nothing to worry about.It's the Marxist/Leftist agendas in Congress that you need to worry about - they're proposing complete evisceration of section 230 - and yes, that would jeopardize, probably even put those monolithic deprecated silos out of business for good.- I see very little that is bad about killing a rabid animal... Or a fox in the henhouse.But... riddle me this Batman:What would be so bad about that? It would destroy the surveillance plutocracy and data farming of individuals and their identities by those socalled, "Big-Tech" subjugation engines like <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/faceplant" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Faceplant</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/instaspam" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InstaSPAM</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/reddit" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Reddit</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/twitter" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Twitter</a>, and to a large degree, <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/google" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Google</a> too... (It won't do anything to stop the likes of Amazon or Apple though wrt their surveillance programs).All if that, while at the same time encourage the migration of people to a fully decentralized and safer social media network where there are either no platforms (only censor proof protocols), as in #nostr; or <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/federated" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#federated</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/smallweb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SmallWeb</a> and single user <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/activitypub" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActivityPub</a> platform instances; or those <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> platforms that vow not to #molest_users who <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/publish" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#publish</a> on those platforms by imposing draconian <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/editorializing" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#editorializing</a> (censorship) upon their users.Either way you can certainly look at this as a win-win situation for the <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/individual" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#individual</a> in #social_media networking. The question really is therefore, "How badly do you wish to punish the privacy disrespecting subjugation farms that comprise that deprecated, monolithic silo space?"I hope that helps, Enjoy!<a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/tallship" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tallship</a>⛵.

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