That’s why some people just create their own instances.

Interesting, but how?

This is just a manifesto and call to action. The “how” comes later, as people gather and put their heads together.

Seems like you have some thoughts about it. Perhaps you can join/share your ideas with them.

This is my third option:

• Continue voting for the least-bad option (I do not believe a truly good option exists)
• Build communities that support and protect each other.
  • When communities become big enough, they will wield power of their own, and “the people in charge” will have no choice but to negotiate (see churches).

This isn’t going anywhere. I listened to the recent Knowledge Fight episode, and he’s just being a whiny little baby about it, trying anything and everything to stop the sale of his company and assets.

I humbly submit that communal structures are the revolution.

I’ve said it elsewhere, but people are scared, and they want change. They’ll take it however they can get it, even if it means making the tactical error of voting for someone who will almost certainly make things worse.

True! I forgot about that. Other accounts have used similar functionality.

Probably, but a bit of wounded pride on top would be good for Jake.

Tbh, Jake has already lost. If he wins, people will say he beat up a 58yo man, former boxer or not. If he loses, he got beat up by a 58yo man.

Like, there’s no way he can actually win in the square of public opinion, and I’m here for it.

That’s cool. Well, I wish them well. Hopefully they can make something that’s good for people and not just chase profits.

Mastodon devs didn’t care to cease the moment

And they never will. That’s not their focus or goal. They don’t care about “gaining momentum” and explosive growth, and I wouldn’t want them to.

That’s up to us. Convincing people to join the Fediverse and showing them better alternatives to their favorite platforms (and teaching them how to use them) is our collective job, not some group of hobbyist devs.

Plus I think explosive growth would change the vibe of the Fediverse in a negative way, since most people expect it to be free (i.e. “I am the product”) and shitty (so always taking offense). I’m fine peeling people away over time.

For groups, I don’t know if Mastodon will ever get that or not. Friendica exists, it’s more analogous to Facebook than Mastodon, and it already has groups and public/private forums. I’m not really sure if that would be a great addition to the microblog format of Mastodon, anyway, so I don’t really care if it never comes.

musk could just buy it. jack already sold twitter to him,

Yeah, certainly, or some other billionaire. I think it goes without saying that most of us here understand the flaws with centralized services.

I’m not saying it’s the best choice ever, but I’m hopeful that the choice to leave Xitter might do positive things to people’s mentality when BlueSky almost certainly repeats history. It’s not likely to happen right away, as even an offer to buy would take time to approve, so for now, I’m taking it as a net positive.

The Fediverse will continue to grow and change in the meantime, and we’ll all still be here to help them migrate to better things in the future.

People aren’t going to be convinced of social/communism overnight.

I celebrate the move to BlueSky as positive in that they are no longer propping up an apartheid tech bro who’s now running a meme branch of US Government, and also because many of them are doing the thing they were scared to do before: leave. They now know how that feels and what it will be like rebuilding friend groups and such.

It’s not the anti-corpo step many are deluding themselves to believe it is, but getting out of the muck and learning how to take the step to change something are both things I see as positives that can be guided to better things in the future.

I see that, now that you explain it that way. That does seem ethically questionable.

I’ll have to take some time to learn more about the details, so I can make my own informed decision.

1. That’s lazy journalism. There’s a functional search bar as well as trending hashtags.

2. There will never be suggestions by design, but there’s accounts like FediFollow and guides on how to get started with Mastodon. If you meet those people in the future, tell them to follow hashtags for topics they like, and encourage them to start using hashtags. They’ll find people that way.

3. This is also by design: there’s no suggestions, because there’s no algorithm. You decide what goes on in your feed (boosting is another important part of that). If you’ve looked at everything, explore a new hashtag, follow more people, check the Local or Global feeds, or Satan forbid anyone actually take that as a sign to take a break and go touch grass.

I have Bazzite on a laptop for the ease of use and general resistance to breakage, and Spiral Linux in a VM. The latter works flawlessly that way, like it was always meant to be in a VM.

I’d do it, though I might cut new side stretchers and do a full mortise and tenon through the legs; maybe also add a cross stretcher between.

But I agree, looks pretty neat

Ah, I see. It doesn’t particularly bother me, but I can appreciate why it might bother somebody else with different values.

Thanks!

or it sells out to another already established billionare that abuses the power of media control etc…

This cannot be overstated. That’s exactly how Elon ended up with Twitter, and nobody should think for a second that there aren’t richer, more tactful billionaires who could keep people credulously swimming in the propaganda in order to make their power plays.

I give it four years before their first enshittifying changes are announced.