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@anhnguyennguyen Hey, willkommen im #Fediverse! 😎👍 Ich wünsche Dir gutes Gelingen im Studium und einen freundlichen Empfang in Stade.
En mastodon empieza a haber un volumen de publicaciones tal que seguir hashtags, sobre todo en inglés, traen demasiada porquería. ¿Le pasa a alguien más?
Decentralised servers - what we now call the #Fediverse - are often talked about as if they’re some new, radical innovation. They’re not, they’re a return to the original design of the network. The early internet wasn’t built to be controlled. It was built to survive. The core idea was simple: if parts of the network were destroyed - even something as extreme as a nuclear strike - the rest would keep functioning. No centre. No single point of failure. No “off switch.”
https://hamishcampbell.com/closed-systems-protect-individuals-but-they-rarely-build-movements/
Had to block an asshole. I don't do that all that much but he was just too much of a turd.
Turns out he's the mod of his instance.
What do you think? Check the instance if they're rotten or just block all of them?
Hey, dial this number. It's a cool BBS!
https://mdhughes.tech/2026/04/11/hey-dial-this-number-its-a-cool-bbs/
I was rewatching Jason Scott's BBS Documentary, as one does.
See, I was making a fake BBS:
The only purpose of this was to test out text render/entry in Kawa Scheme for Lisp Game Jam. It also does a modem squeal on "connection", so I know audio works, & this brings back all the emotions.
Back in the '80s, early '90s, there were four (ish
EU taking the open web path?
When thinking about supporting the #Fediverse, it’s important to understand that the current codebase leadership model is closer to an aristocracy than democracy. This isn’t unusual – most open source projects work this way. A small group of core developers, often a “benevolent dictator,” make key decisions. This model can work up to a point: it enables speed, coherence, and technical direction. But it does not scale in any way easily into a broader public infrastructure.
From the outside, the #Fediverse can look chaotic, and in many ways it is. A useful metaphor is an elephant stampede with people throwing paper planes at each other. That messiness is not a failure; it’s a reflection of a genuinely distributed system.
Democracy is inherently messy.
Bureaucracy, by contrast, is tidy.
The tension between those two is at the heart of the challenge outreaching to public institutions faces. Traditional organisational models – especially those involving funding – tend to concentrate power. Once money and status enter the system, decision-making quickly becomes a focus of competition and control.
We have seen this repeatedly over the last 20 years: projects that begin open and collaborative gradually centralise, and in doing so lose the qualities that made them valuable in the first place. If the goal is to support a native Fediverse ecosystem, this pattern needs to be consciously avoided.
This raises a governance question. How are decisions made once resources, funding, and institutional recognition enter the space? Without deliberate design, the default outcome is oligarchy – small groups making decisions on behalf of many. This is not only a moral failure; it is a structural tendency of complex organisations.
The strength of the #Fediverse is that it is radically different from mainstream platforms. It is decentralised, diverse, and resistant to single points of control. The risk is that, in mainstreaming paths trying to support it, we unintentionally reshape it into something more familiar, and less effective. “Common sense” approaches, based on traditional institutional models, push in this direction. If European institutions want to invest meaningfully in this space, the challenge is not simply technical. It is cultural and organisational:
- How to support infrastructure without centralising control
- How to enable coordination without enforcing uniformity
- How to fund development without creating capture points for power
The opportunity is significant, but it requires seeing and recognising that the #Fediverse works because it is different – and ensuring that support mechanisms strengthen that difference, rather than smoothing it away.
https://hamishcampbell.com/the-value-of-the-fediverse-comes-from-its-cultural-roots-in-the-openweb/
Interesting project, will have a prod to see if I can make something for #OxfordBoaters
Did you see this, a #NLnet grant application that came out of the event https://hamishcampbell.com/why-you-should-help/
Am interested in technical feedback on how we can layer a data object commons on top/beside the current #Fediverse based on #ActivityPub
What We Can Learn from Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders
In #mainstreaming and alt political cultures there’s a constant call in messy times for “strong leaders” to cut through the chaos, but this is the wrong path. What Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders actually show is something more uncomfortable and more useful that real change doesn’t come from strong individuals – it comes from movements we don’t fully control. They were signals, not saviours.
Both figures emerged on the left because something deeper was already shifting with widespread discontent, a break from #mainstreaming politics and a hunger for alternatives to 40 years of #deathcult worshipping. They didn’t create these conditions – they channelled them. “Weakness” is often misnamed, Corbyn in particular was constantly framed as weak, but what was actually happening? When people treat them as failed “leaders,” they miss the point, at best they were interfaces to movements, rather than top-down commanders. They:
- Hold together fragile, diverse coalition
- Refusal to impose top-down control
- Emphasis on process, participation, and consensus
In a stable system, this might look slow, in a fragile system, it’s often the only thing preventing collapse. In the open vs closed battle, it’s not as simple as it looks – especially in the mess we’re in.
CLOSED → conservative / fear / control
OPEN → progressive / hope / trust
We need to keep looking at the underlying path when deciding which way to push the balance.
Where the demand for “strength” usually means more control, less democracy. That path tends to deepen the mess, not fix it, as personality politics is a dead end. When media and institutions focus on personalities where movements are about issues and structures. This mismatch is fatal if your politics depends on a person you are attacked through that person – we all collapse when they falter. You never build lasting power, it is the trap both campaigns fell into, despite trying to avoid it.
Movements without structure (hard or soft) stall, is the harder truth – Horizontal energy alone isn’t enough – Electoral politics alone isn’t enough. Both Corbyn and Sanders mobilised huge grassroots energy, but institutions resisted, internal fragmentation grew – the energy wasn’t fully translated into durable paths, and they fell through the gap.
From a #OMN perspective, the takeaway is clear – Don’t look for better leaders – Don’t rely on existing institutions – Build commons-based infrastructure that movements can stand on. This means: Media we control (#indymedia paths), Governance we participate in (#OGB) and tech that reflects trust, not control (#openweb, #Fediverse)
So in messy times, don’t reach for “Strong Leaders” as this comes from fear, frustration and the desire for simple solutions, history – from left and right – shows where that road leads. In poisoned times, the work is slower, to build trust, to stay grounded in shared issues.
Corbyn and Sanders didn’t fail because they were too weak, they struggled because we don’t yet have the social, technical, and institutional commons needed to carry the kind of change they pointed toward. That’s the work, and it’s not about finding the right leader –
it’s about becoming the movement that doesn’t need one.
@adele There's also Brutaldon
https://brutaldon.org/
which is very usable within Lynx & other minimalist browsers.
#fediverse #feditip
We're building #OMN — plumbing for the #openweb. Publish, subscribe, moderate, rollback, edit. Five simple functions. Community governed. No corporate capture. Come help us build it. #Fediverse #commons #FOSS
https://unite.openworlds.info/Open-Media-Network/Open-Media-Network
What if media was just flows of content that communities shaped themselves? No algorithmic feeds, no platform lock-in, no hidden control. That's what we're building with #OMN — infrastructure for a democratic digital commons. #openweb #Fediverse
The internet doesn't have to be owned by platforms. #OMN is open plumbing for the open web — simple flows, community control, no algorithms deciding what you see. Built on trust, not profit. #openweb #Fediverse #commons
Since this is the most "fantasy" of my many #fediverse accounts, let me slap some reality here for once. But it's the fantasy kind of weird reality. Or something. Oh fuck it, here's some pictures I took today. #photography #badpics
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Bright green grass, many trees that don't have leaves yet, two very bright pink trees, before a bright cloudy sky and some dreadful silo of 1970s-style shoebox living quarters.
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Bright green grass, an asphalt walking path, some shrubbery and most importantly some trees with bright white blooms. Another terrible 1970s industrial living quarter and a bright-blue sky in the background.
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Very light-pastel-pink flowering tree. Same old same old.
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Another two trees in bright pink bloom at the corner of the street.
Pro Feditips:
You can set up any instance you want, write anything you want.
If someone wants to follow that, they can.
If 99% of us want to block you & defederate from your instance, maybe examine why we react that way & fix your behavior!
#fediverse #feditips
Terms of Use - Do not Read [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
"THE FEDIVERSE IS FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY. IT DOES NOT SUPPORT YOUR DESIRED ENGAGEMENT MODALITIES AND IS UNABLE TO PROVIDE ANY REASONABLE MONETIZATION OPTIONS POSSIBLY CONTRARY TO YOUR EXPECTATIONS. DON'T RELY ON THE FEDIVERSE AS YOUR SOLE SOURCE FOR FAKE FAME, MINDLESS FOLLOWERS, OR INFLATED INCOME. POST TO THE FEDIVERSE AT YOUR OWN RISK FOR HORRIBLE LIFE-LONG NEVER-ENDING WHEATON-SHATNER-PIONEERED EMBARRASSMENT ETERNAL. OH AND ... SUCK A BAG OF DICKS."
Happy ninth Mastodon Won't Survive Day to all who celebrate!
https://mashable.com/article/mastodon-wont-survive
I just had a really cursed thought.
When you post a link on the #Fediverse , it is usually shared with hundreds of instances and shows up in their global timelines.
Doesn't this mean that the Fediverse could be easily abused as an #SEO farm? I.e. increasing the search rank of websites by making them "more linked"?
Is this perhaps already happening?
Fediverse Admins, have you seen activity like this?
I don't want the #Fediverse to grow because I see "growth" as an intrinsic good.
I want the Fediverse to grow because I see commercial social media as a major threat to the long-term survival of human civilization. Thus, we need to replace it - and right now, the Fediverse seems to be the best alternative we have.
#Oxford example:
Oxford boaters want to be sovereign—to keep the free-flowing life of the river, not bound by the old rules of the landlords.
#Fediverse example:
The Fediverse is native to the #openweb path. We judge by the #4opens, and we walk with power.
@khleedril That’s a good question. In the early years, outreach on #fediverse was organised by a real, diverse, native crew. It was a good time, our highlight was even getting the EU to adopt the stranded.
But after that, this group was exhausted. They began to splinter, self-interest creeping in, driven by the need to maintain control of resources. The balance shifted, and grifters gradually outnumbered them, ultimately tearing it apart.
I’ve been trying to find a way to express my view of the people who took over the outreach of the #Fediverse, and in doing so shape the #openweb reboot we helped co-create.
DRAFT: Naive, controlling, and self-interested. They’ve left a mess that those they pushed aside will now have to compost. How we ended up here is a question worth talking about more.
#Fediverse moderation today is mostly per-instance and hierarchical, with each server acting as its own silo. Many replicate commercial social media models, inheriting their flaws. This reflects a deeper bias toward control - shaped by both programming culture and mainstream expectations - rather than messy, collective solutions. As networks scale, top-down moderation becomes unworkable, leading to burnout, censorship, and fragility.
The native paths need to explore trust-based, horizontal moderation flows that distribute responsibility, reduce harm, and scale organically - offering a sustainable path beyond the limits of platform-style control.
Today’s the day, folks!
Boost, share, and pass this around. Let everyone know!
#mastodon #pixelfed #signal #friendica #peertube #loops #fediverse
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