I think it's kinda good, we just need to get used to it. I mean lots of platforms have public votes/reactions, even Facebook shows who liked/reacted on posts.
Lemmy will fulfill the search requests on behalf of other servers so this normally works, but it seems PieFed does not do that so it's a bit more strict
Boost is not the same thing as quote posting. Boost is like retweet. A quote post is like when you make a post that references someone else's post, it looks similar to including a screenshot of their post in your own post, except it's a real link.
Well 25% is very strict, pretty sure mastodon.social is more than that for the Fediverse (I do wish other instances would grow faster to catch up)
But yea anything higher than 50% is kinda missing the point, ideally they would close signups and suggest people signup on alternative instances instead
The title says Mastodon, not mastodon.social, and it appears that Eugen was talking about the Fediverse or Mastodon, not mastodon.social specifically (hence the word decentralization, the discussion was not centralized on mastodon.social).
I think people are mixing up the discussion between Mastodon vs mastodon.social too much. Eugen and his non-profit are the developers of Mastodon, so it makes sense for them to be talking it up.
“One of the reasons Mastodon was founded was to allow different jurisdictions to have social media that is independent of the U.S.,” per the statement shared with TechCrunch. “People are free to choose to have their account on a Mastodon server whose policies meet their needs.”
That quote from the article does NOT say mastodon.social
To be clear, it doesn’t matter where your instance is hosted. Mastodon.social is not hosted in Mississippi, either, it’s hosted in Berlin.
There are other countries... watch and see how many instances just ignore the law, there will be many in the Fediverse.
I mean Pirate Bay is still running lol, so yeah I think decentralization works
It doesn’t matter, though. They all have the same choice to make: comply, shut down in that territory… or be fined an insane amount.
Those are not the only choices... not everyone can/will be fined (example: Pirate Bay)
Why are we focusing on mastodon.social? I'm not even a fan of mastodon.social. I'm not really interested in their original discussion either. Honestly I kinda hope mastodon.social does comply or lock users out so that users spread out more to other instances instead. But they aren't even close to the majority of the Fediverse anyways.
There are plenty of instances hosted in different countries that won't care about this law, or you can self host.
You do know that Eugen developed the Mastodon software, right? He's not advocating for mastodon.social, he's advocating for Mastodon.
I'm just talking about the Fediverse. Sure ATProto can theoretically avoid this too but they don't have as many choices for instances, if any at all that are outside the US and federated with Bluesky? And it seems like self hosting is much harder.
Yeah Matrix is horrible, I don't think it will ever catch on
I used Element and it was also an overcomplicated and cluttered UI. They should've just straight copied Discord like ReVolt/Stoat did