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  • Mastodon’s founder cedes control, refuses to become next Musk or Zuckerberg

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  • Just the UX rather than the UI. It’s also missing some features like quote tweets. But it can be confusing to onboard either your own instance and know that your discoverable or to join an instance and know how discoverable you are.

    Like I am a career man in IT, servers, and networking. I have no idea if I were to run my own instance, who exactly on the network would be able to see my public posts

  • What keeps me from closing up my Facebook account

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  • I use Facebook to communicate with my HS classmates as I have been in charge of organizing our class reunions and no one wants to be contacted on platforms. (Not that I blame them)

    However as soon as our 15 year reunion comes around this summer, I’m gathering email addresses and will organize the 20th via email because I’m deleting my account after that. If people want to get together for our 20th they can either give me their email or can plan it without me.

  • What keeps me from closing up my Facebook account

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  • Mastodon has a post only to followers feature, admins will be able to see those posts (because they would have to be able to if they are to send them to your followers on their instance) but other than that, it’s private.

    Now mastodon isn’t a one to one replacement like friendica but it doesn’t seem like there isn’t a reason they couldn’t make a similar feature as far as I know

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    I'm Calling For the Fediverse to Ban UniversalMonk

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  • That also defeats the argument of banning him as he can just keep creating accounts

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    I'm Calling For the Fediverse to Ban UniversalMonk

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  • 100% if he is breaking the ToS on multiple instances (and I would argue that spamming most likely is, not to mention the substance of the content)

    He can always create his own instance and anyone who wants to see his content can join it as well. Instance admins shouldn’t feel obligated to give anyone a platform (ahem, .world), the fediverse is decentralized and democratic.

  • Is everything becoming "enshittified"?

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  • It’s usually more specifically user hostile monetization based on their dominant market position from taking losses for so long that their competitors couldn’t compete.

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    ‘It’s Total Chaos Internally at Meta Right Now’: Employees Protest Zuckerberg’s Anti LGBTQ Changes

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  • I’m sure that meta doesn’t have backups so that makes this an effective form of protest

  • jointhefediverse.net - Why was Lemmy removed from the list of fediverse alternatives?

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  • It has mbin and piefed on the list, so it’s not harming the network at all. If anything it’s more healthy with more platforms rather than just ml and world. It’s one site directing people to the fedi, I’m not butthurt about it

  • There's almost always a more deserving community that could use some good content and growth!

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  • I don’t care for the moderation policies of .ml but I don’t see what shitposting about it all the time without the context that they will ban you for “pro capitalist” posts does other than split the fediverse and make users who don’t even know what your problem is act defensive

    The “average .ml poster”/“average .world poster” discourse is worn out.

  • @lemmy.world Would you like a Reddit Bridge?

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  • If the content was interesting to the users here, it’d be posted by someone who noticed it elsewhere.

    I’m much more of a fan of organic engagement here rather than bots reposting content from other sites

  • @lemmy.world Would you like a Reddit Bridge?

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  • I don’t want to contribute over there. I want them to collapse under the weight of all the AI slop there. I prefer mastodon but at least the bridge to blue sky there isn’t supporting for-profit, ad-driven, ai driven dreck.

  • Meta slammed for 'disturbing' AI profiles, including a fake Black queer mother

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  • Nobody would be able to tell if that was the case

  • I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone

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  • The worse part is, they don’t really need to bug your mic to figure out what you are talking about to target ads to you. The best sales leads are the family and friends of your existing customers. So say you talk to you coworker about how they switched to this new diaper rash cream for their baby. You might not have a baby but you talked about it and somehow you got ads for diaper rash cream. What really happened though is that your coworker bought their cream on Amazon and that brand purchased target ads for everyone whose location data was nearby them. Or they bought it for everyone whose phone was connected to the same IP address. We have so much data tracked about us that they can guess what we are talking about without actually having to tap our phone lines

  • My attempt at explaining the fediverse in a way that is more fun and engaging

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  • I don’t think the fediverse needs a fancy explanation that is non-boring. Either you care about federation and the decentralized control of the fediverse and it makes sense to you. Or you don’t care and those features then become roadblocks to getting on boarded.

  • Is the Fediverse Too Complex? Can It Embrace Simplicity Without Losing Its Identity?

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  • The fediverse isn’t that complicated, if you really care about ownership and control and the portability of data when it comes to using a social network.

    The fediverse is just complicated enough that it is a big enough barrier to keep people that don’t care about those things from getting on boarded usually. There isn’t really a good way to make those factors less complicated with out compromising them for the whole reason people currently prefer the fediverse.

    However there are some other pain points that could be addressed that I think will make things simpler for those who aren’t privacy/tech/decentralization focused.

    Starter packs for one. Allow instance hosts to maintain starter packs for people to follow if they choose during the onboarding process. A lot of people complain about having empty or inactive feeds. Starter packs solve that easily. Especially if there is a repo for communities to submit their own starter packs as well.

    Better discoverability. I know some people don’t want search to improve but it’s pretty hard to find people through actual Mastodon search. I dont know if it’s just do to a lack of users and content or if that’s something that truly needs improving. But basically my follows are usually found off platform and then manually followed or I follow someone I discover via a hashtag.

  • Facebook and Instagram to Unleash AI-Generated ‘Users’ No One Asked For

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  • Great just like games like Fortnite and Call of Dity Mobile have bots with real usernames and profiles to fill lobbies, now literally everyone online could be a bot with a fake profile.

    I’m prepared to just be gaslit for the rest of my life from now on

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  • I like mastodon a lot. I have basically found my hashtags, people and news sources to follow and so my feed is always filled with content to read. Engagement is fairly good on my instance, at least with popular topics.

    But I only have 20 followers in 18 months of being on it so if that kind of thing is important to you then it can be something of a negative. Harder to build an audience without an algorithmic recommendation feature feeding your posts to strangers. I find that to be a positive though.

  • Elon Musk hints at 'X Mail,' a potential Gmail competitor

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  • I can’t wait for twitter’s youtube competitor Xvideos!

  • Your favourite generation of Pokemon?

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  • Pokémon Generation 1 and 2. They story, gameplay, and mechanics are concise and not hand-hold-y, the designs are the ones I grew up with, they can easily be played on a phone emulator and have so many rom hacks that I never will totally experience everything they have to offer