In the old days ... that is, in the year or two before and after #StatusNet ended and #GNU_Social began (and the bifurcation of one #OStatus network into two networks that couldn't talk to one another) a number of left-leaning projects joined the #Fediverse, seeing it as a way to help solve whatever issue they were working on.
Projects in Spain, in France, in South America. And of course, Sweden's EKK and their Qvitter project & Quitter instance. Of these, Qvitter/Quitter lasted longest.
What really surprised me is that few right-leaning and even fewer religious-based groups joined back then. Even then, having views that are not far-left was frowned on by the big #corpocentric sites. Believing that some deity exists and that your views and actions should be influenced by that is even more actively opposed by the big sites than rightist views.
But even then, the left wingers weren't harassing those who just wanted a space to hang out or the occasional right winger who stumbled into the network.
I really need to try to sort out my memories of the Fediverse since I joined Identica in 2009 and publish my own history article. So many of the ones I've seen leave out things I found important, or focus on political things that are only tangential to the overall story.
I think many of the mistakes that Evan initially made in 2006-2007 have been repeated by everyone in this space, which is why so many anti-federation proposals are strongly argued for by people who have not been here for a decade.
I don't think politicizing the #Fediverse is what Feld is getting at. He's saying that people are starting to pay attention, but the AP implementations still lack features they use on #corpocentric sites.
Note that everything proposed was in #StatusNet a decade ago. Some was stripped out a few years back, but I can still do calendar events and communicate with PuSH-enabled blogs from #GNU_Social today.
@coolboymew As far as I can tell, it shouldn't affect follows, except for #GNUSocial subscribers (endpoint re-mappings are missing).
Currently running some of the federation fix-up scripts to see whether they can help pick up the current profile info (e.g., various URLs) for #SPC users.
I legitimately wonder how further developing #postActiv is enabling persecution of minorities. As a Black person, I think the spread of #corpocentric networks in our communities is a big issue, because increasing "engagement" often means throwing extremists' messages in front of their targets, so that reactions (online fights) will ensue; and also because not every extremist is white or right-wing ... throwing everyone in one big tank spreads the sepsis everywhere. ("Septic tank" is probably a good analogy for large centralized walled-garden social sites.)
Meanwhile, smaller #socnet sites, federated together, with an easy ability for users to block problematic posters, where no site has the ability to offer much for data-miners or advertisers or police / security agencies or excessive-regulators seems to be the way to go. Maybe something like #Twister can evolve into a better alternative, but as of a few years ago, it was not there yet.
@antonlopez por otro lado cada vez quedamos menos nodos activos de !gnusocial y menos aún en Español. Si hay personas que dejan de publicar o lo hacen con menos frecuencia se nota mucho.
Pero los cambios para este verano pintan muy bien y creo que le daremos un buen empujón. :)
@guizzy It's the way all these things work. I've seen loads of resurrected threads on #Pleroma and #Mastodon as well as #GNUSocial when someone deletes their account. Their home instance sends out deletes for every individual post they ever made, which modifies the conversations those posts were part of.
@elbinario @administrator @foo @dalme !fediverse Incluso, si empiezas a seguir a alguien de #mastodon con el nombre de usuario con guión bajo, en #gnusocial automaticamente desaparece... no se si será muy conveniente ésto a nivel de federación. ¿Como va el desarrollo de gnusocial, se avanza algo? ¿Abro un tema sobre el caso?