On 25 December 2023 19:15:23 GMT+11:00, Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss <libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org> wrote: >I have been using fediverse for a number of years, so maybe to address a few >points here: > >1. To me, the purpose of a bot account is to usually facilitate the sharing of >say a blog post to the Fediverse services. However those posts still need >interaction. > >You can follow my blog via activity pub, but if you reply I can see that reply >from my account and reply. Surely this works equally if the fsf make a post, I >reply and someone then interacts with my post, esp if asking a question or >just saying 'good work' to the latest video for example. > >The interactions on Mastodon for example are far better than what I >experienced on main stream social media. > >I am not sure where the term 'anti social media' has come from, federated >services are still social media, just built on a more decentralized, privacy >friendly model. > >"but a bridge/client on mastodon to xitter should simply be able to allow users > >to subscribe to any xitter accounts they like, get their posts, >comment/boost them etc without filtering/promotion by xitter." > >From what I can gather looking at Mastodon posts about X, is that it is a >toxic , far right cesspit,
Not really. There are plenty of people with reasonable things to say on xitter who for whatever reason stayed there. > so being able to follow posts on there could be controversial, Meta has plans > for Threads to federate, however the opinion on the fediverse is do we want > to give Meta access to our data, posts which so if this does happen Threads > could find it can only interact with a few instances OR is de federated fully. > >If you are going to join the fediverse, then maybe one needs to be on there >and interact with people and followers. > >On the subject of what is happening, there are people stuck on mainstream >platforms as this is where their followers are, but as Twitter and now >Substack are seen as very toxic people are trying to leave. > >For most people this is probably easy for people who rely on social media to >promote their (source of income) , they risk losing (and do lose) a huge chunk >of income if they leave, so they have to stay on toxic platforms where they >don't feel safe. They are really stuck. > >There does seem to be a need to address this. > >Paul > >>>>> Fediverse doesn't seem to like bots and mirrorring accounts much, and >>>>> this is what this creates. I don't like much that it gives Xitter more >>>>> visibility and power, >>>> How does it give Xitter more visibility and power? >>> Their power to filter/promote and thus influence gets extended further, >>> onto the Fediverse. >> Hold on a moment. AFAIK if you check a xitter account on nitter, or >> follow multiple xitter accounts through Squawker, you get a timeline >> which is a anti-chronological list of posts by these accounts with no >> dodgy algorithm. I don't know what it is like on xitter itself, but a >> bridge/client on mastodon to xitter should simply be able to allow users >> to subscribe to any xitter accounts they like, get their posts, >> comment/boost them etc without filtering/promotion by xitter. >> >>> [... 4 lines elided] >> Best, >> Yuchen >> >> -- >> Dr Yuchen Pei |https://ypei.org | Timezone: UTC+11 >> PGP Key: 47F9 D050 1E11 8879 9040 4941 2126 7E93 EF86 DFD0 >> https://ypei.org/assets/ypei-pubkey.txt >> >> _______________________________________________ >> libreplanet-discuss mailing list >> libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org >> https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
