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How to Leave Dying Social Media Platformsdoctorow.medium.com/how-to-leave-dying-social-media-platforms-9fc550fe5abf
221 sats \ 4 comments \ @User21000000 2 Nov 2022 bitcoin
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90 sats \ 2 replies \ @cointastical 2 Nov 2022
You can't force Twitter and Facebook to federate.
And Fediverse (ActivityPub) applications like Mastodon, Peertube, have designs that make it less than ideal. See my short list of gripes with Mastodon in the comment replies in the following post:
Mastodon saw record number of downloads after Musk’s Twitter takeover #87933
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25 sats \ 0 replies \ @orthzar 3 Nov 2022
I have similar gripes with the Fediverse. My conclusion after using it for a few years is that it is at best a stopgap between centralized platforms and Nostr (or something similarly decentralized). Unfortunately, Nostr clients are not yet ready for the general public to use.
I really should set aside time to work on the Nostr client I started a few months ago.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cointastical 4 Nov 2022
See also the following post, found here on SN:
Mastodon gained 70,000 users after Musk’s Twitter takeover. I joined them #89189 https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/nov/01/mastodon-twitter-elon-musk-takeover
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryptocoin 2 Nov 2022
But the problem with social media isn’t that we gave them our labor for free —that “labor” was for the people we cared about, not for social media’s shareholders.
The problem with social media is that they used our presence as bait to lure in our friends and vice-versa and now they won’t let us go without extracting as high a price as possible for our disloyalty.
We don’t have to accept those high prices. We can — and should — force the tech platforms to free their hostages.
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