For a long time I was critical of any would be post-Twitter than didn't federate from the start, because that seemed like the obvious essential way to bootstrap a critical mass.
But now, I'm starting to feel like there is gonna be some strength in the fact that Mastodon + the broader microblogging fediverse, Bluesky, and Threads are going to come together after developing separately.
@misc Admittedly this topic gets negative, and I'm not feeling like going there right now. I've ranted about this a few times in the past, and I'm sure I'll do it again.
@misc I'm deliberately on a server that blocks Threads, and I could see a similar block on Bluesky being implemented eventually.
To me, that's the power of federation: the ability to keep the fascists and their useful idiots OUT.
I don't understand the drive to connect everyone to everyone else on social media. Twitter is a nazi bar, Threads is Facebook in a cheap suit, and BlueSky is going to end up being just a mini-Twitter. What's good or useful about any of that?
So basically I'm wondering what potential there could be for other networks to develop on their own and then start to federate. Were Bluesky and Threads unique occurrences, or could that happen again?
Thinking about this also in terms of the persistent whiteness of all of these post Twitters. Wonder if any of them has the capacity to fix that, or it's going to take something new, and how that could work.
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