I understand why some people complain about the onboarding process, or the lack of some features (text search and quote tweets being the two biggest). Here are the three most interesting decentralized projects:ĪctivityPub/Fediverse/Mastodon: Over the last six months I’ve spent more time on Mastodon than anywhere else, and the community there is fantastic. ![]() Some of them may have to deal with jackasses who have influence, but none can control the overall system, and just that fact alone is incentive for anyone prone to jackass-tendencies not to go full jackass, or people will… just route around them. But, it creates much better incentives, and avoids the possibility of one random jackass controlling everything. A decentralized protocol-based system is interesting for all the reasons I outlined in my paper a while back, so I won’t repeat them all here. I still stand by that today, though now I think there are three really interesting decentralized social media protocols worth paying attention to. I’ve actually enjoyed playing around with various other options and exploring what they have to offer, so wanted to share a brief overview of current (and hopefully future options) for where people can go to get their Twitter-fix without it being on Twitter.īack in December, as I got comfortable with Mastodon, I was somewhat confused as to why anyone would spend the time and effort to invest in building up a new social graph on another centralized social media platform, which would just become subject to all of the same issues that Twitter and other centralized social media platforms had faced. There have been a bunch of attempts at filling the void left by an unstable and untrustworthy Twitter, and it’s been fascinating to watch how it’s all played out over these past six months. It’s uncanny that one guy could be so bad at this. ![]() ![]() Over and over again he makes ridiculous choices that have made the entire platform less welcoming for speech, more willing to obey government demands, and even when he finally comes around to realizing that what Twitter was doing before was a sensible approach, he reimplements it in the dumbest possible manner. Today is six months since Elon took over Twitter and began this bizarre speedrun of the content moderation learning curve in which he seems to repeatedly… not learn a damn thing. Fri, Apr 28th 2023 11:59am - Mike Masnick
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