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The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied.

www.joanwestenberg.com The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied.

For years, the internet has been shrinking. Not in size, not in data, but in ownership. A vast, decentralized network of personal blogs, forums, and independent communities has been corralled into a handful of paved prison yards controlled by a few massive corporations. Every post, every “friend,” e...

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The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied.

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The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied.

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Not one mention to moderation. The strength and focus of our "small isles" is on taking control of moderating the contents. We can stop fascists posts, and we can share alternative narratives (e.g. solarpunk) to Sillicon Valley. Plus, spoiler alerts as content warnings, etc. I think mastodon with their covenant is the greatest example of this ethos.
- I love the user level control. block urls, instances, communities, users. I really would love like trust cafe where you can rank things from 0-100 where 0 is block and 100 is subscribe and your feed will prioritize posts from things you rank higher for the in between values.
  
  The closest I've seen to that is PieFed, which offers something like multi-Reddits (categories of communities aka Topic areas), and word filtering where you can limit posts with the likes of "Trump" or "Musk" by either a little bit or all/none. So if you feel like avoiding news and politics (for ten fucking minutes!:-P) then you can go to e.g. Arts & Crafts, or for longer set one of those filters, yet return to seeing them later anytime you want.
  Mind you, in some small ways PieFed is not as polished as Lemmy - e.g. there's a preview feature for posts but not for comments - while in other ways it's already more advanced, and being written in Python rather than Rust, will continue to move forward with new features much more quickly.:-)
  
  oh thank you. I had forgotten the name and want to watch as it develops.
- on taking control of moderating the contents. We can stop fascists posts
  .ml tankies and right-wingers: "Wouldn't that be....CeNsOrsHiP"
  
  I know you jest but I will note that freedom of speech is not freedom from consequence, if you say something abhorrent enough and I decide that you in fact are a threat that deserves to be gutted then I am in my right to take said action and face said consequences myself.
  
  Can we stop it with the low effort dunks?

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