@theorytoe @sendpaws @caohuak Yes, and you can just ignore all of this. The part on the network that is free of blocklists is big enough to be interesting. What this part of the network doesn't have, apparently, is people who will be interested in growing it.
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@silverpill @theorytoe @sendpaws @caohuak
>What this part of the network doesn't have, apparently, is people who will be interested in growing it.
If you know of people that won't destroy the culture of the network and seek power over everyone like in the great Twitter to Mastodon exodus over 5 years ago, I would be interested. Main thing this network needs is gatekeeping that prevents takeovers of the network. It has been taken over enough as it currently is.
>What this part of the network doesn't have, apparently, is people who will be interested in growing it.
If you know of people that won't destroy the culture of the network and seek power over everyone like in the great Twitter to Mastodon exodus over 5 years ago, I would be interested. Main thing this network needs is gatekeeping that prevents takeovers of the network. It has been taken over enough as it currently is.
@phnt @theorytoe @sendpaws @caohuak I nominate everybody in this thread.
I agree that gatekeeping is necessary, but it should be done with care. In my opinion "the culture" is not worth preserving, the network should consist of hundreds of bubbles separated by language, geography and political preferences.
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4@phnt @theorytoe @sendpaws @caohuak
>I nominate everybody in this thread.
I am completely serious - only Dark Fedi people can be trusted with maintenance of the most important communication protocol of the 21th century.
@silverpill @theorytoe @sendpaws @caohuak
> In my opinion "the culture" is not worth preserving
The current one likely is not worth it. The one from 5+ years ago was, but now is too late for that.
>I nominate everybody in this thread.
I meant it in "Do you know someone that should be here, but isn't yet." way. Because I genuinely struggle with that, the only one I know doesn't care about social media besides following artists (he would hate misskey.io). You can grow the network with interesting features, but at this point I'm not convinced that if you make a good alternative to walled gardens, people will naturally come. We've had that already and it didn't end well.
> In my opinion "the culture" is not worth preserving
The current one likely is not worth it. The one from 5+ years ago was, but now is too late for that.
>I nominate everybody in this thread.
I meant it in "Do you know someone that should be here, but isn't yet." way. Because I genuinely struggle with that, the only one I know doesn't care about social media besides following artists (he would hate misskey.io). You can grow the network with interesting features, but at this point I'm not convinced that if you make a good alternative to walled gardens, people will naturally come. We've had that already and it didn't end well.
@phnt @theorytoe @sendpaws @caohuak I want everyone here. All social networks, video platforms, messengers, even email.
How to deal with the consequences of technology becoming ubiquitous is a separate question, I think. Twitter migration was disruptive because almost nobody was prepared for it but we're still here, the network survived.
@phnt @theorytoe @silverpill @caohuak my theory with migration is that "the normies" will only come if it's polished, normie friendly, marketed, and used enough. Normies have a huge mentally-imposed barrier to anything new/different where the second anything goes wrong they give it up and want their Windows back.
Apple is the only company who could bypass this, take a guess on why.
The "culture" kind of rotted with the great Keffals/LFJ op to shutdown Kiwi Farms and the userbase there used it as a bunker for a while, along with poasties, Jim being banned on Twitter for a while, and then the Mastodon side trying to take over before being given their own reservation to be on (Bluesky). I unfortunately wasn't there for much of the old stuff, I literally tried to use SPC when it was a GS instance and it felt like me and a few friends were trying to force ourselves to use it.