This is one of the worst Fediverse smears I've read. I have my own complaints with the dominant culture of Mastodon and Pleroma, but this is insane. Something is not 'dead' because somebody mildly offended you, especially not when the norm is mass blocking and defederation in favour of these types of people.
Person is angry at the world because not everyone has the exact same opinions as her (or her closest circle of friends). More after the break.
I think she has a valid point that it's often misleading to refer to "the fediverse" as a holistic thing when it's really a network of wildly different small communities. However, you could say the same about Twitter or Tumblr or HN or New York City or really any social place above a certain size.
I honestly haven't understood at all what the problem with Mastodon was. If anyone could explain this, I'd be grateful.
"This looks interesting. What web site do I go to to sign up and start using this? Huh, there are unnecessary hoops to jump through. I can't be bothered with this right now. Maybe I'll look into this again later."
If understanding what the fediverse is and why the whole point is the diversity of servers, then you're not ready to discover the fediverse.
It's not a bad thing in itself. The fediverse is not just another service, another app, another social network. It's a way to organize together as a society, as a group of humans. It might take time to understand how it works, but it's worth it.
This whole posts lacks arguments and reads like a lot of text to say "This is not what I wanted and I'm sure all the people enjoying it hate it without knowing yet". She complains about how a solution to a problem is bad, but the next paragraph is about how that solution is not applied radical enough. I don't think she knows exactly what makes her so angry about the world herself.
I have difficulty parsing out the actual substantial complaints about the fediverse in this article. The "I don't want to interact with some unpleasant people" problem seems to be already solved by killfiles and per-community moderation (as the author says). With this there of course come disagreements about who to peer with ecetera (as the author says). But this just comes with the nature of a federated system. What would be a better solution, downgrading again to having one higher authority?
The argument then seems to boil down to, that this does not lend itself well to marketing the platform. But this is a general issue with technologies, which require some thought to use (An unsolved problem, I suspect the issue lies with the people and not the technologies. Better education anyone?). Although the pointers on which language might better describe the thing when doing the social wrangling of marketing it seem quite useful.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 35.4 ms ] threadI think she has a valid point that it's often misleading to refer to "the fediverse" as a holistic thing when it's really a network of wildly different small communities. However, you could say the same about Twitter or Tumblr or HN or New York City or really any social place above a certain size.
I honestly haven't understood at all what the problem with Mastodon was. If anyone could explain this, I'd be grateful.
"This looks interesting. What web site do I go to to sign up and start using this? Huh, there are unnecessary hoops to jump through. I can't be bothered with this right now. Maybe I'll look into this again later."
And later never came.
It's not a bad thing in itself. The fediverse is not just another service, another app, another social network. It's a way to organize together as a society, as a group of humans. It might take time to understand how it works, but it's worth it.
The argument then seems to boil down to, that this does not lend itself well to marketing the platform. But this is a general issue with technologies, which require some thought to use (An unsolved problem, I suspect the issue lies with the people and not the technologies. Better education anyone?). Although the pointers on which language might better describe the thing when doing the social wrangling of marketing it seem quite useful.