Meta is a dog shit in the middle of a dumpster. Episode 36384927338

Weren’t them a “boomer” thing for a long time?

A good implementation would be a warning at the creation of a community. Lemmy looks if a community already exist on the instances and display them. It would be on top of a better search.

It’s a similar situation as with the unions. We can all manage to have a pay rise by ourselves. Or, we unionize and ask together for the pay rise.

Defederating the instance is like unionizing. We all go forward instead of individually to have weight. This weight is in form of killing asap the federating attempt, as threads.net users will have nothing to see in the Fediverse. If you let each user manage the situation, threads.net can do whatever they want. There is no individual responsibility in this case. We have to play collectively.

We need to play collectively because the Fediverse isn’t one monolithic network, unlike Meta. It’s a federated network. It’s each instance and Meta. This is why unionizing is important. It’s the Fediverse and Meta. This is the magic of activity pub. You can let others use the protocol but say no to the interaction with them.

The second aspect is that Meta is relying on “cognitive capitalism”. Meta will use free cognitive time from the Fediverse to capitalize. This has huge implication on mental health and all kind of minorities relying on the Fediverse for various reasons. We can say all together no to this, what isn’t possible individually. I recommend the book “The Soul at Work From Alienation to Autonomy” by Franco “Bifo” Berardi. It’s a good book to understand the issue with Meta and others.

You’re playing the classic “it’s the individual responsability” game. It’s how you deregulate everything and the consumer losses every right.

We have to acknowledge that we have systemic or/and societal issues. This is a systemic issues so a common thing.

Absolutely no problem!

By chance, the instances (for or protecting minorities) I’m on are all defederated of threads.

For mastodon if it can help:

• Open your favorite text editor and write threads.net

• Save it as csv

• On your profile on Mastodon, click “edit profile” and scroll to “import/export”.

• Choose “import”, it will open a menu.

• In this menu be sure to click on “Following list” and choose “Domain blocking list”.

• Browse and select your CSV

• Click upload

Longer user know about it. It’s good to post it time to time (as a reminder or not) so people know about it.

Infinity grow is a mirage. We need to understand that. It’s fine if a social media as a limit.

What’s important is how you manage to keep it in life. Even here, you have a limit. It’s conservative to think that it will last for ever as you will encontre the same issue as with infinite grow.

The fact is that thing appear, have a lifespan and die. Social media aren’t immune to it.

You’re pretending what not the same as facts. I can pretend a lot. It’s how I built general statement fitting the majority.

In fact, it doesn’t work like this. Whatever you use, the quality shrink with the quantity. You will have an equilibrium at some point but even with algorithms targeting quality, it will shrink.

The algorithms will continually serve something, low are high quality doesn’t matter. If I use an algorithm priorizing high quality content on a poop emoji platform, it will give me poop emoji. What’s matter the most is what is posted. And, you can’t control the quality of the post.

It’s how mainstream algorithm based social medias actually work. You have farms of content adapting themselves at each algorithm change.

So, it’s why the quality depends of how difficult it’s to use the social media.

Algorithms doesn’t change much. Back in the days when we used mostly forums, and chats, and… all without algorithms, we had the same trend with quality and quantity. The quality went lower with the number of people using them. The small niche forum maintained the quality and for some are still up. The biggest quickly shrink.

The same applied to the first social media and the newer.

Social media is like capitalism. If your way is the infinite grow, you end with entshitification for both. You need to have a limit where you balance quality and quantity.

It’s why the steep learning curve isn’t as bad as people like to say. It’s the limit to keep the quality high enough. If you have a lot of new player making it easy to join, you change the equilibrium and entshitification begins.

But, fediverse is in some case protected. If the new player has its how instance, the others can defederate. It’s what is already happening.

I’m part of a minority and I use Mastodon on a dedicated instance. We defederate of some very specific instances to keep our safe space and keep entshitification away.

I agree. It looks me time to know how mastodon works. But, it’s how it maintain the quality. You can’t have quality and quantity in a social media.

Nope, my sentence doesn’t involve “think they’re bad”.

Real programmer learned Assembly.

VHDL is a good language.

If you think to be a good programmer, you’re the opposite.

It works for me.