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The first time I got involved in Fedi drama, it’s because someone replied to a post of mine with a controversial opinion—and that got everyone upset.

The second time I got involved in Fedi drama, it was because I blocked a guy, and he took exception to that, so he complained about that to his friends.

The third time I got involved in Fedi drama, it was because someone on my server boosted a post—without comment—from a Bad Person, and this triggered a bigass Fediblock. And when I said, “Hey, I don’t even know who this Bad Person is!”—the reply was, “That’s your fault for not paying enough attention to Fedidrama!”
RE: glitch.social/users/Gotterdamm…


@pre And yes the escape hatch adds a layer of existential comedy. We can always leave but we prolly wont cuz where else would we get this level of entertainment for free? In the grand theater of digital farce, Fedi isn't just a stage. It's the whole damn playhouse & everyone is both actor & audience.



Big news! Misskey now has more than 1 million users!

After Mastodon and Threads, it is now the third major ActivityPub-enabled platform to hit 1 million users!

9.3% of Fediverse users are on a Misskey server!

fedidb.org/software/misskey

teilten dies erneut

Als Antwort auf Chris Trottier

Might not be for long though, misskey.io/notes/a2o2aj7zb81f0…
Als Antwort auf Chris Trottier

I'm watching Sharkey now, it's got note editing like firefish...
Als Antwort auf Suoko

@Suoko The problem with all *key software is scalability, and this was something I became very familiar with when running firefish.social.

But I know this is something Sharket maintainers think about too.

Als Antwort auf Chris Trottier

I'm redirected to totohill.net/ ...
Als Antwort auf Chris Trottier

Once a platform hits a million users, it starts acting like a narcissist at a high school reunion. Forgetting the ones who got it there, obsessed with metrics & suddenly serving ads every 3 seconds. Community becomes audience, vibe becomes corporate & the timeline is now a flea market run by algorithms. Golden days replaced with influencers who ruin it all with protein shakes & recycled motivational quotes.
Als Antwort auf 🇪🇷Götterdämmerung

@Gotterdammerung Thankfully, like Mastodon, Misskey is decentralized. So even if an admin of a major Misskey server goes on an ego trip, there are options. There are also many, many Misskey forks.
Als Antwort auf Chris Trottier

Decentralization really means every ego trip comes with a handy escape hatch. Sure, Mastodon & Miss Key offer lifeboats when the captain starts monologuing about their vision, but let's not pretend fragmentation doesn't have its own flavor of chaos. Every fork is just another micro-kingdom ruled by someone with far too much free time & some ironic avatar. Decentralized, yes, but not immune to drama & power struggles, not in the slightest
Als Antwort auf joel b

@skotchygut True. "humans gonna human." No system involving people is immune to drama & power struggles. But decentralization sells itself like it's less prone to those flaws as if spreading out the chaos somehow dilutes it. In reality it creates more local flavors: smaller kingdoms, weirder kings, & drama too hard to follow w/o a flowchart. The difference is instead of one big meltdown, we get 50 dumpster fires burning in parallel.

So I just enjoy the view

Als Antwort auf 🇪🇷Götterdämmerung

@Gotterdammerung @skotchygut Oh God no, decentralization is, if anything, more prone to conflict because now you have a whole lot of little dictators trying to out-dick each other.

Which, in a weird sense, is why I especially don’t trust servers run by “some guy” who’s just doing it out of the “kindness of his heart”.

Either the server is run by a transparent institution or you’re better off running the whole thing yourself.

Als Antwort auf 🇪🇷Götterdämmerung

@Gotterdammerung hmm I don't think I have ever seen anyone claim immunity. There is simply a workable social contract. Moderators act in the interest of the users or the users can easily leave.
Als Antwort auf joel b

@skotchygut The social contract, a noble concept, often invoked but rarely honored. Sure, in theory moderators act in users' interests or risk an exodus. But in practice users don't leave. They grumble, post vague complaints & then adapt like tenants in a crumbling apartment cuz the effort of moving is worse than the occasional leaking ceiling. Call it digital Stockholm syndrome. Or just humanity's eternal comfort with mildly tolerable tyranny
Als Antwort auf 🇪🇷Götterdämmerung

@Gotterdammerung @skotchygut In a way, I understand why Blacksky has appeal because the feed is decoupled from the PDS.

The problem is, can Blacksky make a feed that is a viable alternative to Bluesky’s firehose?

And if Blacksky goes rogue, what are the alternatives to Blacksky?

But at least the PDS and handle are *yours*—if you can’t afford to run your own feed.

Als Antwort auf 🇪🇷Götterdämmerung

@Gotterdammerung you say that like it's a bad thing!

Here, the drama and power struggles are unparalleled. There's literally no centralised system which can give such heights of drama and power struggles. Fedi is amazing at it.

Elsewhere the best you can hope for is a shareholder revolt or a billionaire buyout.

But on fedi? It's free drama every day! You don't even have to pay! It's like game of thrones, shifting alliances and balance of power plays. Falling out and making up, severed connections and reuniting forces.

And you get to observe it all with the safety of an escape hatch any time it gets too hot.

Brilliant. No monolith can ever compete.

Als Antwort auf Adam Dalliance

@pre you're right. decentralized drama isn't a bug it's the main feature. A never-ending reality show where every admin is a warlord, every server a fragile kingdom & every petty grudge escalates into a full-blown schism. Would be Shakespeare had he been terminally online & wrote soliloquies in 500 character bursts
Als Antwort auf 🇪🇷Götterdämmerung

@pre And yes the escape hatch adds a layer of existential comedy. We can always leave but we prolly wont cuz where else would we get this level of entertainment for free? In the grand theater of digital farce, Fedi isn't just a stage. It's the whole damn playhouse & everyone is both actor & audience.