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 […]
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. […]
Your BlueSky Feed Is Porn You Didn’t Ask For Because Your Friends Are Gooners With a Severe Porn Addiction
A common complaint I see people make on Bluesky is: why am I being served so much porn or things I am not interested in? They will incorrectly believe that the algorithm is broken. It’s not broken. You didn’t know the people you knew as well as you thought you did. Porn addiction is a […]
BlueSky’s Solution To Moderating Is Moderating Without Moderating via Social Proximity
I have noticed a lot of people are confused about why some posts don’t show up on threads, though they are not labeled by the moderation layer. Bluesky has begun using what it calls social neighborhoods (or network proximity) as a ranking signal for replies in threads. Replies from people who are closer to you […]
Astroturfing Is Pretty Pointless When Social Subgraphs Are Fragmented (e.g., the Fediverse)
I am seeing astroturfing in the fediverse again, by AT Protocol developers implicitly trying to shill their products. I think it is stochastic behavior by developers with too much time on their hands. Honestly, I do not care. I like the people on ActivityPub more, but I like the AT Protocol better, and I have […]
The Virulent Infection of BlueSky by Extremely Online, Brain-Rotten Zombies from X Continues
So, it appears a new migration from Twitter to Bluesky is underway. It appears to be some of the most virulent former 4chan users possible. Yep, I got off Bluesky just in time, lol. I’ve been keeping tabs on a particularly virulent and toxic subgraph on Twitter for years. It pretty much stayed off Bluesky […]