Self-hosting pleroma.
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@S-Config@core.s-config.com i rarely use bluesky even though i have it set up.
re: Self-hosting pleroma.
re: Self-hosting pleroma.
@S-Config@core.s-config.com Or at the least the old twitter crowd.
You have no reason to sign up for it if you're not banned from Twitter, your interactions/chance of being seen is lower, everyone I know crossposts anyway, and it lacks basic features Fedi has. It only has the userbase it does because a so called decentralized fandom and the mastosoc (NPR listening) tier libs set up shop there.
>You have no reason to sign up for it if you're not banned from Twitter
false, i left twitter not due to being banned (my account became reinstated at some point) but due to the fact that musk thought X should stand for XSS. a spam DM auto-redirected me to a third-party website without my intervention so i immediately noped out of it
>lacks basic features Fedi has.
not doubting you, but which features? i mean, fedi is notorious for making its own mistakes with regard to user-facing features, not even mentioning the stability and compatibility issues from certain things over the years. some of this shit has always been confusing to new users
@wowaname @Milo @PurpCat @S-Config I'm afraid that you can't have that kind of culture on a decentralized network in this political climate (which I don't think is going to change anytime soon). The only way you can have it is on a centralized network with moderation to keep all the political posters, blackpillers, etc out.
For example, there are a couple of imageboards and textboards out there that strive to be more comfy instead of complaining about how much they hate the world, but those admins realized that they either need to sacrifice freeze-peach and/or be relatively obscure in order to keep it that way.
The fediverse has neither of that going for it. Yes, there are more laid-back instances on here that try to replicate that pre-2014 experience, but it is inevitable that users get dogpiled by Poast and NCD users who think they own the network. You could also just have an isolated, webring-like network of whitelist instances, but that kind of defeats the purpose of decentralization in the first place. You might as well just have a Ning site.
@wowaname @Milo @PurpCat @S-Config I lurked on various Mastodon and GNU Social instances before the brief federation of Gab and the culture was kind of like what you described. A lot of people were just simply posting their nature walks or whatever projects they were working on. There were still a few people like that on here when I first joined, but I think Poast scared them off.
@wowaname @Milo @PurpCat @S-Config
>4chan i still regularly see plenty of people mature enough to ignore all that and save the threads with useful contributions anyway. hopefully that makes more sense. it isn't so much the moderation, it's the community's temperament. fedi has always eaten one another alive; we're schismatic and that's a shame
The difference here is that we have likes, reblogs, follows, blocks, etc and it's much easier to post a short meme and get a bunch of those than it is to make an effort post. On imageboards, all you have are (You)s and everyone is completely anonymous so nobody is building any positive or negative reputation (unless you make it obvious that all your posts are coming from the same person).
Microblogging is basically the polar opposite of imageboards. Everyone has accounts, followers, blocks, etc and therefore has a reputation. This enables personality cults and constantly picking sides. It also doesn't help that many people who came here after 2021 were on sites where such behavior was encouraged (like KiwiFarms). Part of the reason why I hate most Poast users is that they are the types that were spending most of their Internet time watching MisterMetokur videos back in the 2010s, so they've surrounded themselves with people who like to make lolcows out of those they disagree with or who they think are weaker than them.
@PurpCat @Milo @S-Config @wowaname It will always anger me that the indie game scene is the epicenter of this behavior. A lot (if not most) people just want to see the imaginary worlds that they've been dreaming since childhood come to reality and probably never envisioned getting into such drama.
Though I'm not familiar with this game so I have no side to pick on this one.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/
In particular; it's because rage and drama and arguing breed interactions; especially with the right demographic for this.
@PurpCat @Milo @S-Config @wowaname @RK7
>In particular; it's because rage and drama and arguing breed interactions; especially with the right demographic for this.
I used to be into that stuff back in my late high school and college years, but I can barely stand to even look at that stuff anymore. I actually regret being into that stuff because I wasted a lot of time when I could've used that time to study for school or practice programming. Pretty much every celebrity who took part of any side of GamerGate or the culture war turned out to be a huge grifter and/or lolcow anyway.
@wowaname @Milo @PurpCat @S-Config @RK7 @Hephaestic Virtually every gaming circle had at least one person talking about it. It may have caused a lot of people (not just 4chan) to leave certain communities after said communities made their official stance on the issues. It also brought attention to several alternative sites that would've never gotten popular otherwise (8chan being the most notable example). It truly did change Internet culture.
I think it was virtually impossible to ignore it as a gamer unless you're one of the few people who simply just play video games and never discuss them online or consume any gaming-relating content online.
Ironically those types insisting gamergate and other poor responses to corporate media conglomerates are some sort of right wing thing is probably the one thing that ended up steering people away from the left. Like, if someone's going to spend a decade saying it's extremism for people to notice a conflict of interest at a gaming site, then yeah they're probably gonna pick the opposite of what that individual is selling.
@PurpCat @Milo @S-Config @wowaname @RK7 @Hephaestic Fchan still exists.
http://fchan.us/
/furry/ was a strange mixture of 8chan freedom culture and modern furfag culture. It was down the street from /pol/ and /gghq/ and people would make threads about community figures being groomers, but then you'd have replies like "omg the straights are being prudish as usual."
>i will say to their credit that the kiddy boards stayed to themselves
That may have been true to some degree in like 2014-2015, but even if they didn't post CP on other boards all the pedos on 8chan did spend a lot of time arguing that CP was free speech (the proximity of those two ideas is suspiciously common in arguments pushed by federal agents). The laissez-faire attitude of hotwheels became more jaded over time as it kept cropping up where it shouldn't have been.
"Here's the scene from American Beauty where the 17 year old is topless, if this is good enough for theaters then I can post 8 year olds getting raped all I want"
If pedos show up on any site they should be banned on sight, no questions asked, they're parasites and subhuman
