#Meta / #Facebook is building a #Twitter clone under their #Instagram brand. Apparently, there's discussion of various #ActivityPub #Fediverse projects' lead developers signing an NDA and having discussions with them.
The participants appear to be deleting evidence.
I'm not spinning a conspiracy theory. I just don't think Gargron or Dansup have any idea what kinds of restrictions an NDA can contain. They risk long-term damage to their projects and some impact on their careers.
That seems like instance admins are too powerful. This is just a guess, but each community probably has a home instance. That instance's admin could then ban the community or ban people from joining / interacting with that community, even if they're on another instance.
Likely the issue comes from everyone (users and communities) piling onto lemmy.ml.
That said, it has been a frequent complaint that #Fediverse admins have too much power. Networks like #Nostr attempt to remove or dilute such power.
Over the past few days as a result of the recent #twittermigation and all the new #introduction posts I've made numerous comments similar to this, so I figured I'd just make one Pinned Blog post and link to it instead
I first started using the 'verse >10 years ago, back when it was just called "de-centralized microblogging" (which was actually pretty centralized from my recollection of identi.ca being the only instance that really was up more often than it was down) I never really used it as my primary Social Media for big part because I didn't really "get" it, until I gave up Facebook for Lent this year and decided I was finally going to dive all in to GNU Social whether I liked it or not.
Here is what was most helpful for me in understanding how this all works. #ItWorksLikeEmail
your email provider can have its own rules, (like you can't send spam), and you can chose to host your own server(where you make the rules, but most people chose not to), and you can talk to anyone else in the world who has an email address (regardless of whether or not you are both on yahoo.com), and while most people just use it for one thing, it can be used for others (like posting to mail lists, or forums that have integrated mail support)
So is it just #Reddit or all of surveillance capitalism following #Twitter lead to charge for the open API access that had empowered their adoption? #lemmy#fediverse
♲ @kixik@lemmy.ml:
Reddit will begin charging for access to its API
Not sure how that will affect libreddit or teddit. That'd would prevent me to get some news on specific channels, which when interesting enough, I brought to lemmy, 😀
I found the thread!and the folks who where helpful probably didn't see this new thread because I hadn't actually friended them yet. That is now corrected as well as STARRING the thread in question. @admin :heart_cyber:@zebulon 1ᵉʳ, dit "le maudit"
On the bright side, the #Fediverse is a breath of fresh air with no obvious way of exploiting it for profit. It’ll come, of course, but it wasn’t the original motivation for its creation and it’s already something.
Am 4.3.2023 werde ich ab 18 Uhr einen Vortrag über das #Fediverse im Cafe Wostok in der Weitlingstraße 97 (#Berlin Lichtenberg) halten.
Das Fediverse - Eine Einführung in die emanzipativen sozialen Netzwerke fern ab von Big Tech.
In diesem Vortrag wird das Fediverse als Gegenentwurf zu den von Big-Tech dominierten Social Media Diensten vorgestellt. Welche Möglichkeiten bietet das dezentrale, emanzipativ selbstorganisierte Netzwerk als Alternative zum vom Überwachungskapitalismus getriebenen Diensten wie Twitter, Facebook und Instagram? Nach einem Einführungsvortrag ins Fediverse soll es einen Hands-On Teil geben um den Anwesenden die Möglichkeit zu geben vor Ort die ersten Schritte ins Fediverse zu unternehmen.
Vielen Dank an all die Menschen hier im #fediverse die dazu Beitragen, dass Freie Software gewartet, dokumentiert und weiter entwickelt wird; und ganz besonders Dankeschön an all jene, die unermüdlich Fragen beantworten. #ilovefs
As with any censorship resistant network, both #Nostr and the #Fediverse are going to have to concentrate some energy around anti-spam and on improving user-level curation tools.
There are other reasons, of course, but weak curation tools lead to #blockwars such as #fediblock.
RP @simsa04: My 9 yo nephew got a Raspberry Pi for Christmas and I'm tasked by my sis – thank you for that, moron! – to give him deeper insight into the machine and what can be done with it.
I don't know why he needed one nor why his parents chose that as a gift as my nephew already writes his little Scratch programs on his laptop, but here we are. So, dear #fediverse people, please point me to guides that explain what the machine does, what kids can do with it taht makes some fun and how to do that. And also how to present the output of the thing on the display of my newphe's laptop.