volkris @volkris@qoto.org
I think the most pressing and fundamental problem of the day is that people lack a practically effective means of sorting out questions of fact in the larger world. We can hardly begin to discuss ways of addressing reality if we can't agree what reality even is, after all.
The institutions that have served this role in the past have dropped the ball, so the next best solution is talking to each other, particularly to those who disagree, to sort out conflicting claims.
Unfortunately, far too many actively oppose this, leaving all opposing claims untested. It's very regressive.
So that's my hobby, striving to understanding the arguments of all sides at least because it's interesting to see how mythologies are formed but also because maybe through that process we can all have our beliefs tested.
But if nothing else, social media platforms like this are chances to vent frustrations that on so many issues both sides are obviously wrong ;)
Joined Dec 2022
Yes, you listed one step to respond to the problem. Because it's a problem. :)
The reason it's not a fundamental human right is because it implies a right to require someone else to work for you against their own interests.
It implies a right to another person's labor, which is not a right I would recognize; certainly it's a right that is generally rejected in cultures around the world these days.
But on #Fediverse in particular, the ability to join instances with a diversity of policies, and respecting that diversity, objects to that sort of blanket statement about rules to which people must conform as they express themselves.
This platform is built on diversity, not conformance.
I'd just highlight how your laying out a solution to the problem illustrates that yes, it is a real, existing problem.
So yep, as @peterbutler said, you lose visibility and there are hoops a person can jump through to partially get it back.
Whether a person has time to take advantage of that visibility is a different question.
Because we want to leave it up to users to decide how they want to run their content.
Yes! And people need to realize, and keep in mind, that #Fediverse and #Mastodon in particular don't fully decentralize social media, but rather distribute it out to many independent centers.
Personally, I think this was a missed opportunity. #ActivityPub could have done more to actually head toward that goal of decentralization.
Well, the nice thing about Fediverse is that we can decide for ourselves what core principles are in our use of the system, without anyone else insisting that their personal preferences are The Way things should be done!
altText or don't. It up to each poster posting joyfully!
I think you're missing that "censorship resistant" doesn't mean "censorship proof."
Glancing at the project, it does seem to provide additional ways to resist censorship. Exactly as claimed.
Yep, it's still subject to censorship through various means, but that doesn't mean it doesn't resist censorship.
Right, your content has less reach, but you also lose out on content being brought in naturally by fellow instance users following others in addition to whomever you follow.
Yep, this comes up occasionally, and it's a tricky topic because there's a lot of confusion out there about what IPFS actually is, how it works, and what it can and can't offer to the Fediverse world.
I think it would be very interesting to try!
Yep!
You use that double-at address from any Fediverse system or instance to refer to an account on any other.
...assuming neither instance is blocking the other, that is.
volkris
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Welcome to the #Fediverse @Tupp_ed ;)
Over here in the greater #Fediverse, of which mastodon is just a part, things like Quoted posts, virtually unlimited length posts and even things like Text Formatting (using markup) are completely normal things to use naturally.
It's sadly just mastodon who wants to do things differently. 🙁
Over here in the greater #Fediverse, of which mastodon is just a part, things like Quoted posts, virtually unlimited length posts and even things like Text Formatting (using markup) are completely normal things to use naturally.
It's sadly just mastodon who wants to do things differently. 🙁
Giving it a shot, I looked up @chartier@pixelfed.social 's feed and sure enough, I could see his photos from this Mastodon instance even without following him first.
I *believe* that happens when someone on this Mastodon instance is already following him, so that his PixelFed instance has been sending pictures to this instance already.
@johnleonard could it be that your crossposting is working, but you're just not seeing it yet since you just followed the PixelFed account and it hasn't send any images over yet?
Well, also don't forget that with instances blocking each other it's not just an imperfection of federation but sometimes the result of active choices made by instance admins.
@prasket Don't forget that major news/media outlets are slow and bureaucratic. They are slow to change.
They probably have internal processes considering #Fediverse, beginning to research platforms, maybe even doing some preliminary software design work.
They will have to have chains of command, procedures regarding who is allowed to post, how things will be approved, etc.
Legal will have to be involved to weigh in on legal implications of different options.
And on and on.
I"m certain #Fediverse isn't being ignored. It's just a complicated issue from the major outlets' perspective.
Maybe a private browsing session for one of the logins would make it work.
I also saw this bit of advice, a MacOS app called Fluid that launches websites as individual applications.
Well this is just smart
(this being the thing I'm quote posting, for platforms that won't show it)
@drewtoothpaste Did Mastodon crop off a punchline at the bottom?
@bitpickup @supernovae@universeodon.com @brettboston @mmasnick
I REALLY think we need to focus on empowering users to shape their experiences instead of pushing toward relying on moderators, human or automated, to do that job.
All too often that option is completely left out of the discussion.
Yes, and I REALLY wish tables of instances would list character limits in addition to things like user numbers and posting frequency.
I figure it must be harder to figure that out automatically, so that's why it's not in there.
So within #Mastodon there's a configuration variable for the admin to be able to tweak character limits.
And then in platforms other than Mastodon, on #Fediverse, other platforms will have different character limits by default anyway.
I think the most pressing and fundamental problem of the day is that people lack a practically effective means of sorting out questions of fact in the larger world. We can hardly begin to discuss ways of addressing reality if we can't agree what reality even is, after all.
The institutions that have served this role in the past have dropped the ball, so the next best solution is talking to each other, particularly to those who disagree, to sort out conflicting claims.
Unfortunately, far too many actively oppose this, leaving all opposing claims untested. It's very regressive.
So that's my hobby, striving to understanding the arguments of all sides at least because it's interesting to see how mythologies are formed but also because maybe through that process we can all have our beliefs tested.
But if nothing else, social media platforms like this are chances to vent frustrations that on so many issues both sides are obviously wrong ;)
Joined Dec 2022
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