rysiek

Yeah. Thankfully, Fediverse is a bunch of independent projects. There are Pleroma, different Misskey forks, Lemmy, kbin, Pixelfed, Loops, GoToSocial, and dozens more.

Mastodon is still probably the biggest, user-count-wise, but if Mastodon does a real stupid, there's going to be a fork that takes over the mindshare and the instances. This happened with OpenOffice → LibreOffice when the former got taken over by Oracle; this happened with XFree86 → X.org. This happened with ownCloud → Nextcloud.

And there are projects like FediPact, explicitly opposed to having anything to do with Meta on an instance level.

Yup. Up until roughly the times of early Twitter, federated, decentralized communication systems were the obvious norm to any engineer designing one.

Twitter was even meant to be federated and decentralized. I had interviewed one of their first engineers (this piece is about BlueSky, and in Polish; the Twitter thing is important background), who was there and working on that in the very early days. They had a proof of concept. But then the VCs got involved and the decision was that it would be harder to make money on a decentralized service. Rest is history.

Facebook is trying with Threads. Threads is directly targeting Fedi. Thankfully, it does not seem to be working the way Meta wanted it to work – that is, to start sucking people in from fedi due to sheer size and presumably better UI. Turns out people who had moved to fedi really hate Meta, who'da thunk it.

Yup, I really appreciate he did reply. Gotta say that it did improve my opinion of him.

Aww, thank you!

Yeah, I had an account on identi.ca. I even wrote about this: https://rys.io/en/168.html

Mentalni dziadersi, dzbany.

Dokładnie, to są dziady, nawet jak w metryce lat niewiele.

Transparency though. 🫠

To pytanie do scammerów, którzy te spamerskie konta tworzą. Trochę jak pytać "dlaczego te maile o nigeryjskim księciu nie są w języku Hausa".

i nie podziękowali!

Ja mam nadzieję, że albo Ladybird albo Verso staną się realnymi alternatywami:

• https://ladybird.org/
• https://versotile.org/

Obie te przeglądarki oparte są o niezależne silniki renderujące, co oznacza, że to nie będzie Firefox ani Chrome w płaszczu.