I don’t have anywhere near your experience, but the key points (customizable, no bloat, good wiki) all scream Arch, as you predicted 🙂

VC = venture capitalism.

That’s a feature, not a bug. Celebrity culture needs to get in the sea.

The Great Sellout to Meta.

Is this Great Sellout in the room with us right now? Because Meta did implement an open protocol into Threads, but it has been widely blocked by other ActivityPub instances. That is not a “sellout”.

Sounds like your principles will only lead you off social media, perhaps the internet entirely?

Was my first impulse too, but looking at their app selection now, it seems kind of … inutile? Unsexy? Old?

I’m not going to pretend I grasp the technological details of either Weird or the Leaf protocol, but the basic concept of superpowering the personal website as identity provider is very attractive — and the passion of your writing is infectious 🙂 I hope to someday reach a lightbulb moment with your work and just implement it on my own site.

i thought nostr was just where all the trolls are going because they can truly be anonymous shitheads.

Also because blockchain, I believe? It’s basically a cryptobro grapevine.

Gotcha! Thanks for the ELI5 🙂

local-first

web app

I’m confused, which is it?

The quality about the fediverse that I appreciate the most is the fact that nobody on any of its platforms raised an eyebrow at having a rainbow-coloured pentagram for a logo, until the first Twitter exodus when some newcomer primed for spotting the mildest of outrage-by-proxy gasped, “Have you seen this? Somebody might get upset!”

Meanwhile, the pentagram has been warding off hyperbolic fundamentalists since 2018. The fediverse is much chiller without them. 🤘

I guess you have to take it for what it is. I see Matrix primarily as an IM network, and for that it works fine. I only use it for private communications with trusted friends, no random pedos can drop into our conversations.

In the past I’ve subscribed to a couple of interest-based rooms (music and movie genres), but other than that I don’t find Matrix’ forum or social features very compelling. Too much potential for anonymous randos lulz bombing any public room for my taste.

Well, Mastodon and Lemmy both use ActivityPub, and they’re not entirely compatible. On the other hand, the diaspora*, Ostatus and Zot protocols are more or less compatible with ActivityPub, and are considered parts of the Fediverse.

Edit: My bad, according to this diagram it’s much more fragmented than I understood it!

Source

Marketing, sure, but the onboarding from Instagram was a massive factor for Threads growth.

another for matrix I forget

If you or anybody else reading should remember the project, I’d be interested in hearing more.

Edit: If it’s this one you’re forgiven for not committing the name to memory…

“The” RARbg, as opposed to the RARbg that closed last year? I’d be glad to hear that somebody picked up where the original site left off.

No idea what the John Tucker thing is about 😆

Fingers crossed it’s just temporary maintenance!

<Sees fish symbol>

<Notices the word “reborn” in the project name>

Give it three days, it’ll rise again.

I’ll grant you that their tech column is dismal, but I happen to agree a fair bit with their ideology so I’m pretty much fine with their (so far) unpaywalled news site…

True. All I’m saying is, it’s not a given that a WPified Tumblr will use it as a default.