Users Are Too Dependent on Centralized Techno-Fascist Corporate Structure to Ever Leave Discord
I’m watching people scatter into countless real-time chat alternatives to Discord after Discord started pulling the age-verification and age-gating card. https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/09/discord-to-roll-out-age-verification-next-month-for-full-access-to-its-platform/ It’s very frustrating because people are entirely missing the point of a community and how social networks work. Real-time platforms and social media networks only work well when a large number of people share […]
Re:16944
@cloudskater wrote: Some instances are run by bad people. Hell, a few projects like Lemmy and Matrix are DEVELOPED by assholes, but the FLOSS and federated nature of these platforms allows us to bypass/fork them and create healthy spaces outside their reach. Nope, that is actually what is killing the fediverse. I just explained here: […]
ActivityPub Server’s Custom Reply‑Control Extensions Undermine Federation
It seems like Activitbypub developers are extending ActivityPub with optional metadata to fix a lot of its issues, but that is still problematic. Trying to add moderation tools and user control to threads seems to be the ongoing battle. I am fascinated by dumpster fires, so I’ve started looking at the ActivityPub protocol in detail. […]
FEP-171b: Conversation Containers Won’t Work
So, I took a look at this: This document specifies a model for managing conversations in ActivityPub network. It is based on the implementation of Conversation Containers in Streams. In this model conversations are represented as collections controlled by a single actor. Such conversations take place within a specific audience and may be moderated. FEP-171b: […]
ActivityPub Can’t Enforce Safety For Vulnerable Groups — and That’s Why the Fediverse Is Fucked
So, I’m a developer. I am following along with and reading this thread: https://oisaur.com/@renchap/116056634129526611 All I can think while reading this is: Well, that’s unfortunate. So, one of the very popular features on Bluesky—also popular on Twitter—is the ability to select who can reply to a post. A major issue in the Fediverse is the […]
A Thing I Miss About Old-School Forums Was It Was Harder to Bull Shit People
I don’t miss old-school forums. However, one of the very few norms I do miss about them is that you were required to support your argument with sources. On present social media, sources don’t matter. Evidence doesn’t matter. It only matters if enough people with a large enough pool of influence say it so frequently […]
I am Not Migrating Back To IRC
So, with this whole Discord surveillance age verification situation, I am seeing lots of talk on every social media platform, including Discord ironically, about moving back to IRC. I am not going back to IRC. Though, I do not really have a valid interest in it, because I use Discord just to monitor occult cults […]
People on Social Media Cannot Be Bothered to Look Up the Facts of The Tech Discourse They Are Engaging With
So, I had an experience with an influencer account on the fediverse: @FediTips People believe they are being informed when they are being influenced. That account is litterally publishing what are technically definitionally manifestos. That emphasized why I don’t argue online. There is an interesting property about facts: factual ontological propositions about something will converge. […]
Stepping Back From Social Media To Read a Book
I’m taking a break. After spending like two years in the worst parts of the Internet modeling the memetic spread of conspiracy-driven behavioral patterns and developing social media software as a side hustle, I think I’m going to take a step back and… I don’t know… maybe read a book? lol. I’m a Computational Biologist […]
My PDS Doesn’t Participate in Bluesky’s Age-Verification Flow
So, apparently, with the last few updates Bluesky has done, they have expanded the regions that need to be age-verified to Ohio, and they are preparing to expand it to Australia. They have also made it so that people don’t have access to DMs or material labeled by Bluesky’s moderation services. I’ve been looking into […]