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2026-05-09 06:53 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rasterweb/116542832779822915 > " I never expected to find my news from strangers on a federated social network that half the internet has never heard of. [...] But there's something quietly beautiful about a place where people just... share what they know. No brand deals, no engagement metrics, no algorithm nudging you toward rage. Just someone who spent twenty years studying Arctic policy posting a thread at 2 AM because they think you should understand what's happening. It's the internet I was promised in 1996."

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  • @Su_G@aus.social 2026-05-09 08:46

    @imacrea@mamot.fr Yes, yay Fediverse!❤️

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  • @imacrea@mamot.fr love the Fediverse, but I'm also very worried. Because when things get BIG, they get INTERESTING to (bad) people who can only see big $$$. And that's a risk. Very few things are immune to enshitification - sadly.

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  • @lucybeahere@mstdn.social 2026-05-09 15:46

    @Random9@101010.pl @iju@mastodon.social @imacrea@mamot.fr Really depends on the admin. Many are on top of this. Some close registrations as needed. Social is the most vulnerable bc it’s huge and less moderated, which is why some block .social entirely. The decentralization is what makes harder for bots.

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  • @imacrea@mamot.fr In many ways, the Fediverse reminds me about some of the things I loved about Usenet, but that I didn't realize until years after I'd lost them. I won't say that there's no one here posting performatively, mostly because I know I've done it too. But it has never dominated here the way it has elsewhere. Usenet lacked the ability to follow people, so you had to simply watch for them to say something. Between that and the slower propagation of posts, it rewarded us for saying something interesting and finding people with something interesting to say. It was accidental or coincidental. It took the rise of social media to show me, slowly, that much of what made it great was what it didn't do. And Usenet was federated. It took the Fediverse to show me that that was a feature. It wasn't automatically identifiable by a set of tropes of how social media and engagement worked. It was neither a hero nor an antihero because we didn't yet have a social media shorthand for those. Yet there were people filling the role of good-hearted sidekicks, talking about netiquette, and being the touchstones of what they wanted in the world around them. It's tempting to say the Fediverse is an antihero in this analogy. But it isn't. It isn't the deliberate addition of flaws to throw the good within it into sharper relief. It isn't even the underdog in the sense of tropes. Part of what it eschews are the mechanisms that support the tropes. Perhaps the best analogy is that where the rest of social media arrives to be a blockbuster franchise, the Fediverse is a thousand indie bookstores. There are treasures in each, waiting to be found and discussed, person to person.

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  • @wobweger@mstdn.social 2026-05-09 13:50

    @imacrea@mamot.fr 💚

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  • @bakuninboys@aus.social 2026-05-10 10:15

    @imacrea@mamot.fr my fav quote: > We’re never going to go back to pretending that tweeting at politicians does anything and everyone there is desperately trying to build a “brand” as the funny one or whatever. I want news I don’t want your endless meta commentary on the news.

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