Olives @olives@qoto.org

If you're not familiar with this subject, there was an update a few months ago and things went a bit wonky afterwards.

There are instances with more free speech (i.e. I think FSE, is that still around?) but it might be very noisy there and it's more niche.

If another instance is upset at you for daring to criticize the idea of federation being a magical silver bullet, there is always Qoto. Our admins are pretty chill.

It's not total free speech but they won't get mad over stupid things.

We have a 65k character limit on here. With other platforms plugging themselves in and bridging themselves, it might turn into a link, so I'll often post things in chunks.

If a post is really long though, I won't even bother with that. I will just use the long character limit.

If you are wondering, the local feed is still missing, although the home feed works well enough.

Sometimes, the home feed gets stuck (it doesn't load any new messages) and the only way to fix it is to refresh the page.

This doesn't mean other social media platforms don't also have issues but we have to be wary of mythologizing the fediverse. #FreeSpeech

Apparently, folks on the fediverse don't like it when the silver bullet mythology *and* the way a few individuals cling to it are described as being like a cult.

The fediverse has issues. Inter-instance censorship. Ones referred to as "HOA". Unprofessional mod / admin practices. #FreeSpeech

If someone is a believer in the fediverse, it's not like it's going to improve, if someone doesn't interrogate aspects of it.

"fans" (particularly concern trolls who crave attention) who "watched a couple of titles" stand out like a supernova.

In fact, a lot of these titles being adapted now are titles which I saw around a decade ago.

Anyone who has been reading light novels for around a decade could have seen the "transported to another world" titles long in advance. It's not something out of thin air, it's like "Oh, they are adapting those ones now?"

A light novel might care quite a bit less about censoring something for the television than an anime adaptation of it.

Full nudity? Yeah, whatever, just throw it in.

Sex scenes? Yeah, just throw that in.

Nipples? Even some anime have historically had those.

I'm surprised no one has thought of something that is like Nostr (relays which transmit messages for a community) and like Cwtch.

Maybe, Veilid will become more interesting as the development of it progresses. It could take a few years though.

I like a lot of the frankness you get from the developers of Cwtch about how performance and security is a trade-off.

Veilid reminds me a lot of Cwtch but it's also less mature than Cwtch (development only started a year ago). The requirements for developing it also seem higher than Cwtch.

I don't understand what the Veilid's appeal is.

https://veilid.com/about-us/community/ The point of not using Discord is to show a commitment to privacy by not collecting as much data. Something you'd think a privacy project would do.

Private censorship exists.