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  • They behaved as if discussions of other Fedivese microblogs themselves were some sort of existential threat to the Fediverse.

    The web keeps evolving, and honestly in the end usability and accessibility will be key. We’re waiting for a project that can lower the bar for the ‘common’ user who wants to click a button and yell into the void. Probably Meta’s intended audience. I expect that this future project will in turn become more of a containment zone than an actual place for discussion, but hey at least the folks who want more than Twitter/Reddit 2.0 will have an entry point to the rest of the fediverse without having to deal with the semantics of it.

    Incidentally, where in kbin does it show what type of service other users are using?

    Ah, I meant the hostname, not the specific type/kind of instance. Still, to at least be able to differentiate on source rather than claiming everything as its own content, is something I do appreciate. It would either teach me to ignore or value certain contributions more or less, given their origins - i.e. an instance ran by propaganda machines or big business.









  • I am Dutch, and I personally loathe Dutch content. Seeing the inane ‘gekoloniseerd’ spam any time anything Dutch was mentioned grew tiresome quickly. Add to that that a lot of posted content centers around Randstad issues, this vague sense of holier-than-thou dialogue, and I felt even less compelled to interact with Dutch online spaces. I may be a bit jaded - but Holland is not the Netherlands.

    I can read Swedish, French, and German - and those occasionally visible spaces, apart from the meme-focused instances, seem far more mature and focused in their conversations.



  • I agree on this, too. Kbin is a weird name for masses to adapt, for example. We’re back in the Wild West regarding this form of social media, and the result of that will hopefully be innovation and reiteration of established standards.

    Hard agree on the American soft power, too. I was surprised there were so many German instances on the fediverse already. I don’t really want to interact with Dutch posts though, so if those pop up that’s a hard filter from me.

    With eyes on the future of the fediverse, I would prefer not ending up with another Facebook-like situation where ‘one place’ is the ‘default’ place - where the ‘default’ place is run by people less trustworthy than Mark Zuckerberg.