How's it feel understanding just how despised you professional liars are? At last, we can talk back to them and let them know just how much damage they're doing.
How's it feel understanding just how despised you professional liars are? At last, we can talk back to them and let them know just how much damage they're doing.
Eh.
This is pretty standard fare in decentralized Internet spaces. "Mastodon" isn't doing anything, here. Its just rival online communities engaging in the standard tribalist fracturing you'd regularly see between Reddit subs.
As certain communities grow, they'll become central nods for the rest of the space. And they'll become entrance points for new members of the community, which will make them a vital link to the confederated communities.
The only question is which communities grow fastest. (Hint: it'll be the ones with the biggest advertising budgets)
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Mastodon is just Reddit subs with a Twitter front end. I don't think the mechanics are surprising, just the politics. And, again, if Mastodon fills up with corporate brands and their media flacks, it'll hardly matter. Planet Money will Confederate with Pepsi Co and the FBI and nobody will care that some small fries aren't along for the ride.
Mastodon will be as suseptible to the networking effect as everything else.
why would a community have an advertising budget? every new member they take on is extra cost on their end with 0 methods to actually monetise them; the moment they pull anything, their members can move to another server that communicates with their server anyway unless they literally lock it down and do not federate with anyone else
to put pay to this claim, a lot of servers are not down with how poorly moderated the biggest entrypoint to the fediverse, mastodon dot social, is so they completely block them off. can you be a central node if a subsection of the network can just ignore you like that?
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Like the Us government opens an official instance or something?
Official, no. But National Endowment for Democracy, USAid, etc.
Why even hide? Couldn't they just ask and enough people would willingly hitch there wagons to nato.instance to start some sort of protacted yankee's war against anyone who blocks them? Or am I overestimating the interest level a bit.
Nobody likes feds, probably not even the feds.
This is a fair point.
Sure, but the point is to manufacture consent, which works by making you think people are coming to their opinions organically. That requires the illusion of multiple, non-affiliated sources; otherwise it's just open propaganda.
It is not tribalism to ostracize harmful predators who cause real-life damage to real people.
Let's not crap on a rare L for them.
Its not meaningful if its just a few dozen tag tag hobbyist instances in a pool of thousands.