The "Fediverse" isn't the solution you think it is

I say do not put your trust in only one protocol. I say connect to ther fediverse, but split your trust between Activitypub, Ostatus, Zot, Diaspora, Nostr and ATP, use P2P too, but split your trust between Bittorrent V2/FInal BEPs/Accepted BEPs/Deferred BEPs, the Interplanetary File System and OrbitDB, The Holepunch Suite and Freenet/Locutus along with RSS/ATOM feeds to follow specific people or the whole firehose. A Tor/I2P/Lokinet hidden service should also be considered.

Federated social media is still social media. When it connects us, it's great. Otherwise all social media is a soapbox and a bullhorn. Not dissimilar to what I'm doing now, eheheh. All the associated doom scrolling and dopamine feedback is present whether it's on mastodon or X.

I remember joining a fediverse instance once and the owner blocked so many instances it felt like you were only talking to people on the same instance. The worst part is, the criteria for blocking instances was based on "vibe." No, I am not kidding. Something as ambiguous as a fucking "vibe" was used to block instances.
I forgot the instance's name, but alot of them weren't even some of the more controversial ones (i.e: gab or kiwi farms' instance) they were basically just instances that didn't have many blocks.
So much for federation, I guess.

It's refreshing to see people who are critical of the Fediverse instead of just raving about how much better Mastodon is than Twitter.

Couldn't agree more with this. Everyone can run their own website!

Wow, you completely missed the point on all your arguments

all are great points, and that's not even touching on how terrible the "internet town square" is as a platform model. even Kurzgesagt made a video saying to go back to self-hosted sites, that's how you know Twitter/Mastodon/Gab/whatever are brainrot generators

No I need Social Media to talk to my totally legitimate friends who really care about me!!!!

Never heard of the fediverse before this, but anything with 'fed' in it already raises some basic red flags.

I’ll still be using the fediverse Denshi and going outside in the Bay Area requires that you have a lot of situational awareness, it’s not only in the Bay but you also need situational awareness anywhere outside; Basically what I’m trying to say is I don’t want to die but I also never tried the fediverse and never got to use it but after this video I’m still going to try it.

I'm a proud owner of a website.

So what? You say that fediverse is bad because of some problems, and then recommend rss, which also has all these problems. Or don't I understand?
Everyone can still save all your "cringe rss posts" and there's nothing you can do about it. You can still ban some users. And the content itself is not much different from something like reddit, you are still "addicted" to the internet, there is no difference.
I don't get it.

Blogs don't solve everything. We can solve messaging with XMPP, consuming content with blogs.

But what is the alternative to forums? Basically, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter are all forums - you can post, read, comment publicly. I don't see any better alternative then Fediverse as of now.

well, anything you put on the internet should be considered to stay there forever. Signal resisted implementing deleting messages because of this, you may "delete" the thing, but it is likely cloned on someone's machine, either some company server or someone who mirrored all your data.

All in all, before you post something, think a bit. Do you want that to come to you 10 years from now?

Glad to hear from you

To summarise, the problem is internet socialising not which app was used to socialise

These platforms are mostly used by 3 letter agencies and marxists scum

Duh. Its aweful

Questions for the social media study:
1. Why only 143 undergraduates? That sounds like a very low number.
2. Was it kind of obvious already that going outside and talking to people is emotionally better than using social media with internet trolls across the web and why would there be a need for a 5 year old study in order to explain that fact?
3. Why didn't they use Twitter, Reddit, or Discord as one of the platforms? They seem to avoid the more obviously toxic ones.

i still do not know what the fediverse is, thank you!

Thank you. Our global culture is rotting. The TikTok is bringing an apocalypse, but even "rebellious" options like this are a misstep. So thank you for talking about it.

Stopping kids from saying first, but also being first💀