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  • I posted a medium-short summary elsewhere with a couple of links for folks looking for slightly more context.

    I don’t think the eris or defederation things are Huge News in themselves, but if it’s true he doctored a screenshot to make the .art admin look bad, that’s not a good look for a lead deve/flagship instance admin.

    .art is an influential leader in community safety/moderation standards in the fediverse; their standards for federation are moderately high, and probably higher than folks on many lemmy instances would likely agree with. But it feels like the firefish guy has possibly a pattern of not doing his homework about things in general?

    Obviously the big question is, did he actually doctor screenshots and if so, WTF, man.







  • I have no desire to see facebook in the fediverse, but that’s not really gentrification, it’s more like Walmart. (Anti-competitive corporate monopoly suppressing competition and forcing everyone to serve their bottom line)

    Gentrification refers to the displacement of poor and working class people, and especially people of color, by affluent people, especially white. That’s not the specific dynamic here, in no small part because Mastodon has been self-gentrifying[1] aggressively from the beginning. (It is jokingly referred to as the HOA of the internet)


    1. Through white techies being constantly obnoxious to POC who have the temerity to try to join the fediverse, the particular culture of content warning policing, and lack of discoverability making it hard to form community. Note: there’s no reason to think facebook would improve any of this. ↩︎




  • Some folks won’t be able to access some communities due to defederation, and in other cases folks may want to start a community on their home instance for certain reasons. This isn’t the end of the world; probably in the long run either everybody will centralize on the biggest one, or you’ll end up with one or two alternatives that have a bit different culture or focus.

    That being said, if you like to read comments, it can get confusing when a bunch of different communities all have high interaction posts about the same topic at the same time.