Ah, of course the guy motivated by money ensures he can keep getting it.

Let’s hope he will invest it in moderation worth a damn.

Sadly it sounds like he’ll still be in charge of the project so he can keep ignoring user issues and pull requests that are actually useful and instead keep making changes that users don’t like, want or need.

🙄

That isn’t what I said. Why take my words out of context? I have no desire to use a specific thing that has become a hub for fascists, not the whole internet. This is very disingenuous.

Nostr is full of fascists and others with bigotted, regressive views last I heard, so no thank you.

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Shame.

Not sure.

I haven’t really looked into the people behind it.

The only original project I’m currently sure that has good people behind it that care is gotosocial.

A lot of fedi software is created by not great people sadly, even lemmy.

Only a few projects I know of are created by actually decent people who care about the community and don’t have terrible beliefs/views.

‘Soft’ forks can only do so much and still rely on the upstream releasing new versions.

Hard forks are quite unlikely to get either the same kind of backing or be able to be supported as much even if the people behind them have good intentions and viewpoints/beliefs.

Sadly, under capitalism this is likely to be the case, even in the open source sphere, it’s the people that have the money or who can attract it that are able to continue working on things such as this full time and, unsurprisingly, that tends to be people who uphold power structures, not dismantle them.

Sure

Sigh.

The history of mastodon.social - the one that has been historically run and moderated by the creator has been shown to be and called out multiple times for not moderating well.

Part of that is because it was allowed to get too big and part of that is that because of that they didn’t have enough moderators (especially not ones that were paid).

This led to design decisions for both the web interface and the ‘official’ mastodon app that made moderation (such as one of the report options sending your report into the null) and the general experience (such as removing one of the timelines from the from the ‘official’ app) worse.

The tools for moderators and admins are also somewhat laughable and often display warnings which mastodon.social ironically doesn’t follow or does all too well, depending on whether it’s unhelpful or helpful for them personally to do so.

That’s what I mean, not necessarily individual instance moderation, though as I have shown (not) doing good instance moderation if you’re the developer helps develop tools and designs (which is part of the the problem/solution). But also a community orientated approach and actually paying attention to what folks are saying about an instance and the tools and things that are developed to help out, or as a consequence of any decisions taken or not taken in moderation.

Yes, I’m not the creator of the post. I just thought I’d make it easy for them.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/mastodon-becomes-nonprofit-to-make-sure-its-never-ruined-by-billionaire-ceo/

About time. Hope this leads to actually good things for mastodon rather than a series of increasingly worse decisions by the current supreme leader who doesn’t seem to care about safety, moderation or creating and keeping a unique identity for it and other things besides.

No Man’s Sky and Stardew Valley (modded).

Good, it’s about time the abuse stopped and all the indulgment in firings most companies do.

Eco ‘terrorists’ you know what to do 😉

Can’t speak for others but I’ve learned more about politics on fedi than any other platform. Also, centralised platforms are no longer ‘fact checking’ and didn’t really do a good job of it when they did. I’ve seen folks provide sources on fedi at least.

I think this is just the latest in FUD about the fedi for the most part, it has a few good points, but mostly it doesn’t really know what it’s talking about.

Excellent reply.

Honestly, I think it’s both. But you may be correct, sadly that’s it’s more about being able to hang on to beliefs for the most part.

There’s no such thing as a brainwashing machine. Brainwashing is a very specific process that doesn’t last long outside of the torture or specific scenario that creates it.

What they mean is a conditioning machine.

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