Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/

[albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz]

@Ruth_Mottram

The #fediverse, and hence Mastodon, as the real deal:

"Actual human beings were able to find each other and ask direct questions without this giant mountain of bullshit engagement piled on top of it."

I'm all for it.

[albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz]

@Ruth_Mottram

On the #fediverse :

"I never expected to find my news from strangers on a federated social network that half the internet has never heard of. I never expected a lot of things. But there's something quietly beautiful about a place where people just... share what they know. No brand deals, no engagement metrics, no algorithm nudging you toward rage. Just someone who spent twenty years studying Arctic policy posting a thread at 2 AM because they think you should understand what's happening. It's the internet I was promised in 1996. It only took thirty years and the complete collapse of American journalism to get here."

I did, because I was part of that early internet. So glad it's back, and made by us, again, and not corporations.

[mrpdaniel@mastodon.green]

@Ruth_Mottram
'I prefer my narcissism farm to table'

[groxx@hachyderm.io]

@Ruth_Mottram source looks like: https://c.im/@matdevdug/116183052079063047

[drgroftehauge@sigmoid.social]

@PrimozR @Ruth_Mottram Mat is also right about search. I can't find them on Mastodon.

[ruth_mottram@fediscience.org]

@drgroftehauge @PrimozR yes same!

[drgroftehauge@sigmoid.social]

@overby.me It is only just now that we are getting black sky and euro sky has followed. No one was successful in creating a new instance before that. And black sky got a bunch of help from blue sky because there was too much not documented about how it worked

[drgroftehauge@sigmoid.social]

@Ruth_Mottram @PrimozR It's @matdevdug

[guido@framapiaf.org]

@Christo_459

it's @matdevdug

@miturian @Ruth_Mottram

[leanderlindahl@social.folkdata.se]

@Ruth_Mottram its really weird that DR (Danmarks Radio) still aren't in the Fediverse.

[christo_459@mastodon.me.uk]

@guido @matdevdug @miturian @Ruth_Mottram
Thank you

[elena@aseachange.com]

@leanderlindahl @Ruth_Mottram how do we make it happen?

[openrisk@mastodon.social]

@Ruth_Mottram

"no algorithm nudging you toward rage"

Umm, not so sure about that part.

The fediverse is full of "rage", some of it reflecting what is happening in the world but a lot of it performative, I suspect simply nudged on by the *implicit* algorithm of posting, boosting, see and be seen etc. To the point that mastodon had to introduce the "think before you comment" UI.

But it is indeed from this base that we need to think forward towards more meaningful social media.

[leanderlindahl@social.folkdata.se]

@elena @Ruth_Mottram I have no idea. Maybe @jeppe or @SuneAuken has an idea? Or at least an idea of who else from Denmark could be tagged. Surely someone must know people at DR.

Leander Lindahl (@leanderlindahl@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image Given today's news. This could be a good time for DR (Danmarks Radio) to take the first steps in establishing a presence in European free, open and federated social media. #digitaluafhængighed #digitalsovereignty #danmark And they wouldn't be alone. Through @Flipboard@flipboard.social most major news outlets are already in the #Fediverse.

Mastodon (mastodon.social)

[gimulnautti@mastodon.green]

@Ruth_Mottram Ain’t that the truth.

Capitalism pretends to be for the everyman only as long as the growth gives them more than us.

But as soon as that growth stops, they start the squeeze but keep pretending they’re still for what they bought our trust with to start with.

[aakaynjl@social.vivaldi.net]

@Ruth_Mottram