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so many euphemisms for "please let the shitty people with unreasonable opinions hang out with you"

if your "big tent" has nazis in it you might find out that you didn't need that big a tent at all

surely it's not a coincidence that world octopus day and international lesbian day are the same day 🐙

serious advice for the fediverse though. real talk

*turns chair around*

i think the biggest single reason why people don't stick is they fail to follow enough people

you have to follow lots of people here because whole swaths of the network can be almost totally invisible to you if you don't. follow people until your home feed doesn't feel dead anymore and then keep going

the first thing you should probably do after you get set up here is go into your settings and UNCHECK the box that says "don't ever show my posts to anyone under any circumstances"

this can help a lot if you're looking for a more traditional social media experience

#feditips

welcome to the fediverse. you're either going to bounce off hard or you'll get the curse and have to post here forever. we're kinda like the flying dutchman of social media networks

@mcc yup, that's really exactly what will happen i think. at that point they may find it easier just to migrate to an activitypub implementation of some sort than keep going with atproto, but they surely won't be migrating back to corporate bluesky

the point is that social media is about people first and implementations second, and everyone who isn't able or does not want to exist in that corporate world is going to end up on the "fediverse" eventually, no matter how many steps it takes to get there

@mcc people are attempting to make it work anyway, and i don't want to cast any shade on their efforts. i think it's a good and noble cause

however, they seem to be making the assumption that corporate bluesky would never "defederate" from them completely and i don't think that is going to hold up at all

and then once that happens they've effectively built very complicated fediverse instances. maybe it would have been less trouble for communities to start with the fediverse instances that you can already set up! but the assumption above is preventing that from seeming reasonable right now

aspects of a non-corporate social network have previously been able to exist alongside the corporate one, but increasingly this is becoming untenable and these two worlds are going to continue to separate

hot take maybe but i think that activitypub vs atproto is really just an implementation detail and the actual divide is between corporate and non-corporate networks

seeing what's happening over on bluesky makes me pretty happy i decided to invest my energy in the fediverse instead

asbestos is the future, asbestos is a modern material of science. if you aren't using asbestos in everything you are going to be left behind

i don't want to be a girl, i am a girl. all the rest is just a negotiation with the world