Tag: fediverse

• Some interesting links – September 2023

  Most of these relate back to previous posts I’ve made, but I’ve found them to be interesting/complementary to them – or I want to talk about them in a way that’s too long to go in a thread somewhere but too short to be in an actual post. “Mastodon is easy and fun, except when…

  Bloonface

  September 5, 2023

  Internet

  fediverse, Internet

• The enshittification of “enshittification”

  Cory Doctorow’s idea of “enshittification”, as elucidated in his post here is quite simple: Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they…

  Bloonface

  August 8, 2023

  Internet

  Facebook, fediverse, Instagram, Internet, Mastodon, Meta, platforms, Threads

• A vision of the future

  It is 1st January 2024, and Meta has shocked the world by introducing a new policy where they will literally murder all of their users using a big gun if they don’t delete their Facebook, Instagram and Threads accounts by the end of the year. Luckily, the Fediverse has an answer! It’s a new decentralised…

  Bloonface

  July 9, 2023

  Humour, Internet

  #cockblocked, Amiga, circumcision, Cockblock, Docker, fediverse, foreskins, GNU/Hurd, Internet, Mastodon, Satire

• The fediverse is a privacy nightmare

  ActivityPub, the protocol that powers the fediverse (including Mastodon – same caveats as the first two times, will be used interchangeably, deal with it) is not private. It is not even semi-private. It is a completely public medium and absolutely nothing posted on it, including direct messages, can be seen as even remotely secure. Worse,…

  Bloonface

  July 4, 2023

  Internet

  fediverse, GDPR, Mastodon

• Meta and the fediverse: sorting heat from light

  As I alluded to in my previous post on the Fediverse and Mastodon (as before, used interchangeably here, deal with it), the prospect of Meta’s new “Project 92″/”Threads” being ActivityPub compatible has led a not-insubstantial quantity of existing Mastodon users to react with incredible fury and calls for the entire thing to be blocked by…

  Bloonface

  July 3, 2023

  Internet

  ActivityPub, fediverse, Mastodon, Meta

• Why did the #TwitterMigration fail?

  I’ve been using fediverse stuff (Mastodon and, most recently, Calckey – I’m just going to use “Mastodon” as shorthand here, purists can bite me) for over a year now, and have been doing so full time for about six months, following Elon Musk buying Twitter (since on principle, I decline to give Elon Musk money…

  Bloonface

  June 12, 2023

  Internet, Uncategorized

  Calckey, fediverse, Fine City Social, Internet, Mastodon, Misskey