Wandering Adventure Party

When you’re a social media company, fascists are good for business, and active moderation is bad for it. So long as people keep seeking their community from profit-seeking entities, they’re going to keep running into the Trumps and Elons of the world.

@Tim_Eagon How it went on Bluesky: Few ATProto boosters yelling PHP is garbage, just use an existing PDS, just run a separate server for it, and super trivial to write the sockets and REST for PHP, Ben and Matthias and all them are lying/don't know what they're talking about. FTR, I had one cover ALL those bases + then some. Final post before I blocked them all: Oh how stupid you're being. You don't need root/server access to set things up! Here's a screenshot of me using Docker on a VPS.

@Quasit @laprice @gildilinie @literalgrill I mean, thats essentially what people are asking the fediverse to offer, a choice of moderation.Like if the tools are there for moderators to act, you now have a choice between servers and their moderation policies (and moderation actions) and with existing tools for switching, you can vote with your feet if you dislike those policies.If the tools aren't there, you leave a bunch of people with a choice of slurs shouted at them or don't exist here

Bluesky was never an alternative. I don't say it isn't better than Twitter; it is. However, the only genuine alternative, as of now, remains the Fediverse and Mastodon. And most people won't admit it because they're too lazy to go through the "server browser" procedure, which is literally two clicks.We put no effort into things and expect better/different results? That's silly.Excellent article: https://azhdarchid.com/delusions-of-a-protocol/#Fediverse #Mastodon #Bluesky #ATProto #ActivityPub #Tech