CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@andyinabox
The statement was specifically about @taylorlorenz, as she is out here for quite a while now and a respected journalist in the IT space, went independent time ago, and finances herself by subscriber support. She is the ideal kind of "influencer" to promote the fedi and at the same time to test and prove that with an established modest fixed support for servers, a different kind of social web is possible. The German mastodon instance digital.courage for example decided to expect a fixed "profile fee" of 1 Euro per month, payable once a year, as accounting every month would be to much work.

It is obvious that setting up and maintaining a well moderated instance for users in the fediVerse comes with work and expenses. That's what my comment(s) started to begin with, by mentioning exclusivity and the bottleneck of moderation. I have no doubt that small communities can self moderate.
The experience itself would even fit into Mrs. Lorenz realm of expertise and actually give room for content creation, articles and books.

I'm writing this comment from a self hosted friendica instance, way more powerful than mastodon, the ideal single user platform, not only for independent journalists. So if it where for Mrs. Lorenz herself, a social.usermag.co node would not only suffice without even entering the community and moderation details, she'd be in the drivers seat of her data and social web contacts. She even could publish simultaneously to bluesky, the fediverse, the diaspora network, tumblr and by email. With one click. And recieve all the input by her followers on her very own server. Ultimately that's what our decentralized web is about.

Right now, even tho she is independent, she depends on centralized gatekeepers that by the law of enshitification sooner or later always will cheat her. Be it substack, patreon, YT or the expectation that Elon might throttle the reach of her voice because she interviewed the mother of his child. They will always have the upper hand.

So teasing her the way I did is without any doubt nothing else than just that, using a wording that call's the attention for a split second to initialize own thought processes. A kinda friendly wake up call.
Te be sincere, it's not only embarrassing in my opinion to need to talk in length about this, actually my comments were directed way more to @OrionKidder who already pulled the rug, than to you.

The passive-aggressive communication style you people developed out there in the realm of the commercialized (a)social web is .. well .. painful to watch. Being for more than 15 years now out here in the federated web, we continuously are exposed to the backlashes and bad habits that reign out there, created and induced by algorithms, addictive dopamin schemes and all the rest we all know about.

This is the internet with people from all over the world, not only from northern america. And if right now you are Barcelona based, probablement ya se dio cuenta que, como dicen los alemans, andere Länder andere Sitten. De hecho al punto que siquiera los españoles y los latinos son capaces de comunicarse por largos ratos sin ofenderse y empezar a ponerse de estupidos porque parten de la base de que probablemente ay mala intencion del otro lado de la pantalla.

Why would I even bother to waste my time, the only thing I truly own, to address others out here with bad intent? Because others do so? If people aren't willing to think twice, think out of the box, give the benefit of the doubt, they most likely should dedicate themselves to do some blog posts and grant the world the right to cherish their glory, instead of reaching out into social interaction in a realm like the fediVerse where we all share so many things in common, beginning with the fact that we already managed to escape the sites set up by criminals out there, that the fact that we engage with each other should suffice to have fun together, instead of being afraid that some is trying to have fun at our expenses.

Right now I'm working on some material for to promote and explain our decentralized setup, maybe this map creates enough curiosity in Mrs Lorenz to think about setting up her own fediVerse nodes for her podcast, and her writings, mabye she even could host her videos on some peerTube instance. That way she might evolve her independent setup while surfing and milking the sites and setups she managed to evolve already.

The tone of my posts?
The tone of my posts are the way I write them and that's quite far and distant to the way your hear them.