Whispers what if there is an e-petition in the works for Canada's Parliament to provide all MPs, Senators and others with a "free, decentralized, and federated" alternative to Twitter and other corporate social media platforms...
@algorithmwatch is a German nonprofit (with a Swiss partner org, @algorithmwatch_ch) that "ensure[s] that the use of algorithmic systems benefits the many, not the few".
They've just joined many other civil society organizations in fully leaving the cesspool known as Twitter/X behind. Congratulations! Consider giving them a follow here :)
J'ai une super amie qui débarque sur Mastodon. Je voudrais l'aider à sa prise en main. Ne voulant pas réinventer la poudre, j'ai cherché des éléments mais je ne trouve plus les fils qui donnent des conseils (en français) pour celleux qui viennent d'arriver. Quelq'un·e pourrait me filer un coup de main ? #aide#mastotips#twittermigration
I'm happy that #bluesky has allowed #RSS feeds. #Mastodon has done this for some time. However, since I'm not on bluesky, it is helpful for me to keep up with people who have ended up there as part of the #twittermigration. If only they supported #ActivityPub so I could follow/interact directly from here. #Fediverse FTW
My name is Kerem; I'm a photographer & also interested in 3D modeling & digital illustration. I enjoy Synthwave, Deep House & Dark Ambient music.
Like the most, I'm migrating from Twitter and looking for a proper place to share my work. It is really hard for someone like me who using Twitter as his main social media since 2008.
I hope I can make meaningful connections here too.
#Twitter
after I deleted my account entirely, I recreated it just to seal my previous username.
This allowed me today to make a quick random tour inside the astro part of it, in ages.
😱 😱 😱 😱 😱 😱 😱 😱 😱 😱 😱
So much toxic and poisoning stuff I was not used about anymore, that I will need another month to recover.
(well the people are just the same people, no matter what's the platform, but there's indeed a selection bias towards certain kinds of ways of discussing things...) #twittermigration
Yesterday many left leaning pundits and journalists were suspended from TwitterX without notice. Some were subsequently reinstated after very public complaints from a few prominent individuals.
We have seen this tactic before. Musk uses the ban hammer to enforce self censorship. The message is clear, step over the line and you will be silenced.
Open message to journalists and others still on X Twitter. We have a very nice open social network over here, without Nazis, and not owned by any billionaires. You won't have to worry about being silenced for sharing your thoughts. We would love to have you join us in reshaping social media to benefit people instead of corporations. Come on over. At least give Mastodon a fresh look. Help us build a better future.
@LaureM@noelreports#Bluesky is absolutely not in growth mode, it has recently been falling below 400k daily active and the trend of decline has been visible for months. It did briefly grab attention as the most hyped alternative but it is starting to look a lot like that is already fading.
there are some reasons to be optimistic for #Mastodon's future since it isn't just a single isolated platform and the #fediverse has welcomed the first small steps of #threads integration recently, #wordpress introduced their ActivityPub integration, #Flipboard launched their integration etc. but it is definitely experiencing a period of slower growth currently.
Overall it seems like there is no single place the #twittermigration consistently goes towards and that results in a more fragmented social media landscape but ActivityPub does promise to unify some of them.
Ch.11
I can think of #Fediverse being like a fleet, with many types & sizes of ships. Different social platforms. Different sizes of servers. But all communicating & co-operating across the Fediverse. We're a fleet.
Multiple feeds reflect different ways of seeing posts from across the fleet. They can have different names but broadly they fall in to 5 categories.
🛳️Home includes everyone I follow. Whatever ship they currently call home. Posts from multiple social platforms, any servers.
⛴️Local, my server =everyone local on this ship (my current account server location).
🚢Federated, other servers = 1 step beyond, people that my locals are connected to, have followed or are searching.
#Hashtag feeds = posts using the hashtag you are interested in.
🎏Custom feeds = feeds with criteria I can define & refine over time.
Ch.12 #BeKind
This place is built on kindness, on respecting each other, on listening, on benefit of the doubt, on not trying to 'win' conversations but learn from them. Humans beings are varied, that makes life interesting.
I must not leap to be be negative back. Maybe they just have too much stress today. If I have to I can block. If troll servers turn up, it's a couple of clicks to block an entire server if I need to - but probably the mod heroes will be on it already anyway. #Welcome#Newbies#New#NewHere#TwitterMigration#Help#FediTips
Ch.14 #Content
If there are subjects I don't want to deal with I can set filter words in my profile settings which will stop certain topics.
#Fediverse & it's different platforms + software have masses of clever tools, & different ways to adjust access & content.
We can communicate with people all over the Fediverse platforms seamlessly. Crucially we have masses of control over how & who we interact with. Block words, turn off boosts (eg by account), mute accounts, block accounts, block whole servers, shift servers ourselves.
We own this place, we control our experience. Nobody is inserting stuff in our timelines because someone paid them to modify what we see & find.
Ch.16 #Visibility
Having more followers does not make my posts more visible.
Following fewer people does not make my posts more visible.
Receiving faves does not make my posts more visible.
Ch.17 #Design
Some very clever people have been building this place, and they did not build it to monetize us, but to make people's connections better.
The code here is all open source. Without advertisers, shareholders, CEOs, venture capitalists.
There is no reason to make us anxious or aggressive. To make us click more, scroll faster or argue with each other. There is no1 to trade clicks & scrolls & posts to for ad$.
Everything runs on donations & volunteer time + skills.
CH.20
I realise #Fediverse is an evolving co-operating culture with it's common underlying protocol (#ActivityPub) linking many things. No 1 platform is trying to lock up all my attention in their walled garden to see their ads.
I can have several accounts, I can use several platforms. I can keep my circles, but I'm also free to move around & try new things as they emerge.
On phone or tablet or desktop, I can have many apps, but also a simple browser window will let me access the #Fedi in it's different flavours.
Ch.21
If we are after a particular feature that maybe we liked elsewhere, just ask if that feature is available! People are super helpful here and someone will come along to tell us all about options. #FediHelp is a great tag for that.
There are a lot of different front ends to use with your account/s. Some are apps we install to use with our Fedi accounts, some are browser based. Many of the Fedi's platform have all kinds of cool things in the settings too. #Help#Welcome#New#NewHere#SocialMedia#TwitterMigration#FediTips#Newbies
Ch.22
The different platforms work together, they communicate and evolve together.
It's more than fine to play around in the different platforms. It's actually a liberating thing, to not be locked to one platform as we were before.
Having all these options might sound complex, but using Fediverse community social is not like choosing a corporate social media platform. Your friends messages and communication spread across the community of platforms in the Fedi. It's not choosing 1 platform over another or getting stuck.
This site is a nice overview for some of the different Fedi platforms and what they do in co-operation, which corporate sites do apart.