Tonights new Mastodon PR: A WIP Implementation of APIs for Moderation Notes for Reports and Accounts (and eventually Instances)
I'm not 100% sure if this approach is ideal yet, but interested in feedback from people wanting this API (it's been requested since 2019)
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast
@pluralistic 's words on Bluesky and #enshittification are, to me, true.
These two paragraphs say everything about why I can't trust Bluesky to always have good intentions:
'But here's the thing: all those other platforms, the ones where I unwisely allowed myself to get locked in, where today I find myself trapped by the professional, personal and political costs of leaving them, they were all started by people who swore they'd never sell out. I know those people, the old blogger mafia who started the CMSes, social media services, and publishing platforms where I find myself trapped. I considered them friends (I still consider most of them friends), and I knew them well enough to believe that they really cared about their users.
They did care about their users. They just cared about other stuff, too, and, when push came to shove, they chose the worsening of their services as the lesser of two evils.'
#TIL, through @thisismissem (thank you for your dev contributions to Mastodon, to our moderation and trust & safety tooling!! 🙏) about this dashboard:
“Fediverse Network Statistics”
PS
@pixelfed is the 5th most-used Fediverse software, rock on @dansup thank you as well!
if you want to understand what's wrong with #mastodon, listen to some black people. listen to some women. listen to some queer people. I'll post some links in a bit for those who don't know, but I'm not here to convince mastodon apologists. I'm interested in joining the conversation on how (if?) #ActivityPub can be used in a way that overcomes mastodon's problems.
Ro ( @are0h) is deeply knowledgeable about the problems with mastodon and on fedi, and has done extensive work coordinating and using the available tools. He also has deep knowledge of the technical and social challenges ahead, and the risks of failure. #mastodon#ActivityPub
What does a safe, inclusive microposting protocol on top of #ActivityPub look like? #mastodon is very clearly not it; there are flaws baked in, and the questionably-BDFL is not interested in feedback from marginalized people.
Which just means that we'll have to build it ourselves, without him.
if you want to understand what's wrong with #mastodon, listen to some black people. listen to some women. listen to some queer people. I'll post some links in a bit for those who don't know, but I'm not here to convince mastodon apologists. I'm interested in joining the conversation on how (if?) #ActivityPub can be used in a way that overcomes mastodon's problems.
STOP #ENSHITIFICATION
Support #Mastodon!
I would like to use Bluesky. They’ve done a bunch of seriously interesting technical work on moderation and ranking that I truly admire, and I’ve got lots of friends there who really enjoy it.
But I’m not on Bluesky and I don’t have any plans to join it anytime soon. I wrote about this in 2023: I will never again devote my energies to building up an audience on a platform whose management can sever my relationship to that audience at will
@pluralistic
#bluesky #x #twitter #facebook #socialmedia #enshitification
https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-11-02-ulysses-pact-tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast-b2f89bb5b4d8
With zero experience of the two commercial platforms, concluded the following from the reviews of you raging communists:
Threads - No news. Check out my insta pics. Here's a random thing the algorithm threw.
Blue Sky - Late to the Twitter. Late to leave. This is so like old Twitter.
Mastodon - Freaks, tech geeks, nerds and raging communists.
Is that the deal?
For really no reason at all 😇 here's why I find the user experience on #Mastodon better than in that Nazi Chatroom when it was still called "Twitter":
- 500+ characters
- post editing
- follow hashtags
- better s/n ratio
- no ads
Plus, https://quintsns.pianeta.uno/ does a pretty good job at replacing paper.li
So I wouldn't go back, even if someone resurrected Twitter. Now, FriendFeed on the other hand... 😆
@pluralistic says it best, why #BlueSky is no alternative:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast
We're helping important organisations move away from Big Tech platforms and towards open New Social platforms - like Mastodon!
But, we can't do it alone. We'd love to hear which organisations you think should make the move and why, so we can show them that there is a community waiting here for them.
Better yet, if you have a connection to an important organisation, we'd love to be introduced!
#Fediverse#Mastodon#Help#SocialMedia#Tech#X#Twitter#Charity#Government#News#Academia
Cory Doctorow @pluralistic ofrece este enlace de la Universidad de Minnesota sobre los beneficios y desventajas del Fediverso, con hincapié en el problema de la moderación de contenidos. Me parece relevante. Es descargable.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4213674#maincontent
La 1ª parte describe el Fediverso y cómo funciona.
La 2ª parte examina la moderación de contenido en Mastodon.
La 3ª parte considera cómo los legisladores pueden fomentar el Fediverso.
Murmel doesn’t rely on ads or hidden fees, and we aim to keep it that way. By requiring a credit card at signup, we’re building a sustainable, user-funded service that values you, not ad revenue. Cancel anytime, no hassle! #mastodon #murmelhttps://murmel.social
If you're new to Mastodon I'd totally ignore people telling you how to run your own account.
Crosspost from other sites all you want. Post whatever you want. It's your account.
Too much clubhouse gatekeeping.
#Newcomers to #Mastodon keep in mind when you see people telling you how easy things are and telling you how to do things, someone on Mastodon just ran a poll with hundreds of responses and 1/3 of the people said they ran their own email server.
So take it all with a grain of salt.
👆 #Bluesky has starter packs to help people find interesting accounts. I built one with accounts from #Mastodon, that can be followed from there (thx @bsky.brid.gy).
But it was challenging to find more, that aren't already also active there. Any suggestions, whom I could add?
Because let's build more bridges!
If you leave X or Twitter (or however you choose to refer to it), what should you do with your account? Is it enough to simply delete it? @Gizmodo has tips. #X#Twitter#Bluesky#Mastodon#Threads#SocialMedia#Tech#Technology#ElonMuskhttps://flip.it/GrBbNC
Exactly two years ago, we started to post links on #Mastodon via our account @heiseonline 👇
https://mastodon.social/@heiseonline/109314036284496776
It took longer, than I expected, but here we are: it seems like this account now brings continuously more #traffic to heise.de than #X (#Twitter) in its entirety, although it only has ¼ of the follower number (and many of them don't seem to be active anymore).
I'll prepare some graphs after the weekend.
#SocialMedia
#TwitterExodus
#MastodonMigration
#TwitterMigration
#Fediverse
The week is over, here are some charts:
For two weeks in a row, #Mastodon brought more #traffic than #X / #Twitter to heise.de.
But I forgot, that's not just via @heiseonline, but also @heisec, @ct_Magazin, @heiseautos, @iX_Magazin etc. (but for Twitter its the same).
For two weeks in a row, #Mastodon brought more #traffic than #X / #Twitter to heise.de.
But I forgot, that's not just via @heiseonline, but also @heisec, @ct_Magazin, @heiseautos, @iX_Magazin etc. (but for Twitter its the same).
#Bluesky is way behind, #Threads even more. Only Twitter is clearly falling.
(🧵 1/3)
#SocialMedia
#TwitterExodus
#TwitterMigration
#MastodonMigration
#Fediverse
If you add all the #TwitterAlternative s, they have been in the lead for a while now.
If you add @Flipboard and sum it up wit #Mastodon (because #Fediverse 😉), then #Facebook ist not far.
But, if you have a look on the numbers since the beginning of 2022, then it's clear, that this is mainly a story about the decline of #Twitter.
(🧵 2/3)
#SocialMedia
#TwitterExodus
#ElonMusk
#Bluesky
#Threads
#MastodonMigration
Here's a good question and I have the answer: #Traffic per Follower for different social networks (here for the last 4 weeks).
#Mastodon is now behind #Bluesky, #Flipboard still far ahead. #X and #Threads are really far behind.
#SocialMedia
#TwitterExodus
#ElonMusk
#Fediverse
#MastodonMigration
Wie ich jetzt sehe, bei Zugänglichkeit und Nutzerfreundlichkeit, könnten paar Dinge anders gemacht werden. Im Beispiel, neuer Nutzer Dieter kommt auf Mastodon, und interessiert sich hauptsächlich für Sport, egal von welchem News-Outlet. Und nun kann er zwar hashtags folgen, bzw. Sportsektionen der News-Bots folgen - aber diese muss sich erstmal raussuchen. Und schneller wäre für Dieter, wenn er innerhalb von Klick einer Sammlung an Sport-Accounts folgen kann.