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@juergen_hubert @mekkaokereke
Thanks for explaining what I'm fighting for better than I ever would <3
Fyi that's why I built mastox.eu to mirror X accounts of public person and institutions that are not (yet 
) on the fediverse: this allows others to come here without losing those informations.
Mekka you have to be my favorite poster on the fediverse
Every post you write makes me think
I take it is as a dear conviction the fediverse must grow. And so at your first sentence I'm feeling antipathy. But by the end of your comment, I'm agreeing with you. You're challenging me in the best of ways
We need growth, but at what cost? And you make me consider the costs. They cannot be hand waved away, as some would do. These costs must be addressed and erased before any growth
Mekka, you say it so well.
A question for the "The #Fediverse doesn't need to grow" crowd:
Do you _want_ commercial platforms to dominate social media around the world - and allow them to manipulate the algorithm in order to promote unchecked #Capitalism, #fascism, and everything else that is currently wrecking the planet? Not to mention handing over sensitive personal information to authoritarian regimes.
I don't see social media going away. But the Fediverse currently represents our best hope of getting away from _commercial_ social media, and thus we need it to grow.
Thus, if you don't want the Fediverse to grow, you want #Meta and #X to win. Unless you have a _better_ noncommercial social media alternative than the Fediverse, in which case I'd love to hear about it!
I'm unhappy that about 3/4s of the people I used to follow on BirdChan did not come to the Fediverse. I am perturbed at many of those that remain on BirdChan—their presence there providing revenue and undeserved legitimacy to Musk's dumpster fire platform.
I am, however, happy that the MAGA influencers and their apologists have remained on BirdChan and have not come to the Fediverse.
I can not accept your binary options there. It is perfectly reasonable to not want a behemoth fediverse and not want Meta or X 'to win'. Not least because they've kind of 'won' already, but also because alternative routes, accepting that being marginalised and outside of the mainstream becomes massively preferable for some, rather than being part of a 'win' here, given what that might look like.
I definitely want neither some massive fediverse nor Meta or X.
@juergen_hubert @mekkaokereke
Thanks for explaining what I'm fighting for better than I ever would <3
Fyi that's why I built mastox.eu to mirror X accounts of public person and institutions that are not (yet ) on the fediverse: this allows others to come here without losing those informations.
@benjamin @juergen_hubert @mekkaokereke I would like to see @econtalker @freakonomics and their guests here. Also @ev_rat
@benjamin @juergen_hubert @mekkaokereke
It would be wonderful if I could @mention a bot on twitter or Instagram that added them to this mirror somehow...
While still there..
Or a form somewhere to add account names to mirror? For those of us who have left...
Happy to contribute to this, let me know how I could help
@benjamin ok, so this interests me. And I think it is a great way to get people over to the fediverse.
But it does bring up a problem I have, and I'm techy enough to figure it out. But I run into this problem "If your account is hosted on a different server, you will not be able to log in here." and I scratch my head. How is the fediverse easy to use if you end up creating accounts on different servers?
We need a SNS. My answer is a DNS for social names. Social Name Server. #SNS. Agree?
@craiglambie42 that's not a problem if you start your journey on a big mastodon instance like mastodon.social or piaille.fr for France
Since those mastox mirrored accounts would already be known to those big instances and therefore searchable in their engine.
@benjamin plus I started on a smaller server, so finding mastox is not possible? Or I just can't figure it out... So how a laggard would...
@craiglambie42 yes, very small mastodon instance will have a hard time finding other people.relays exist for that.
@benjamin ok, so maybe I don't understand how it works then. Why can't I login to the mastox server to see the accounts on there?
Or is it a case of searching for specific accounts?
@benjamin ok, but doesn't having accounts in multiple places kind of make this verse a bit naff. Surely it would be smoother if auth and name was separated from the messaging and posts?
@craiglambie42 I don't understand why you say you need accounts in multiple places. Mastodon works in a way that makes you see the others instances transparently. This exchange is the proof 😅
Old Twitter was _so_ much more diverse than the present Fediverse. Especially if you made a conscious effort to connect with people outside your bubble. Which I did, and I learned _so_ much.
In contrast, the Fediverse is its own bubble. People who hung out in their own bubbles on Old Twitter won't notice much of a difference, even if they believe themselves to be progressive and open-minded. But if you actively tried to cultivate diversity in your own timeline, the difference is brutal.
I used to have no difficulty finding lots of people from Africa, South Asia, and many other regions in the world. And I miss that.
@mekkaokereke
I agree with all of this & SO MUCH this part: "we as a community of people of all backgrounds, have agency to improve Mastodon". It could be better here, if we push it and make it better
IDK if you saw this paper I wrote about harassment here, from the perspective of an individual (not server- or blocklist-level). TLDR: this place has loopholes the size of semi trucks that harassers can exploit, which ofc Black folks have warned about. In case of interest:
https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/JoCI/article/view/6644
@mekkaokereke I quit that bird -no regrets.
@mekkaokereke What can I do to make Mastodon safer for black people?
@MiriShuli @mekkaokereke
SOrry if you already got this answer (my instance is super glitchy and laggy and I can't see anything from the last several hours), but here's a post from @thenexusofprivacy that speaks to this:
https://privacy.thenexus.today/start-making-the-fediverse-less-toxic/
@mekkaokereke I’m a white cismale and the thought of millions of genuine non-subversive twitterfacebook people here makes me puke in my mouth
@mekkaokereke Most excellent concept and post. My spouse is in frequent skirmishes on Facebook with RW don’t-know -their-ass-from-their-elbow minions shouting about Humpty’s rapture. “Why do you bother?” I ask, “come join me in the peace of the reverse” I smile. 😊
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