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  • @fediverse
    Probably not original at all. But I suspect there’s something to framing it around “improving the quality of internet discourse” through the emergent dynamics of a federation … especially in comparison to monolithic big-social.

    It also repositions the internet as a broader resource to be used effectively.

    And instills independent and contentiously incompatible instances along with widely connected federation as desirable positives for social media and the internet in general.
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  • @Loukas @fediverse

    Agreed (and said the same myself)!

    As I’ve said it … alternative social has run its course in this post-musk-twitter moment. Everyone’s settled down where they ended up.

    And yea, either more major disruption or some new killer features (rather than clones of big social) will be needed to shake things up. Neither seem particularly likely in the short term … your EU-meta smackdown is probably the best bet??


  • @Loukas @fediverse

    Comparatively, it’s definitely a lot more into shitposting vibes, for sure.

    I think their biggest problem right now is they don’t have good community self-organising features (nor masto, but the boost culture corrects for that IMO), so those who want more serious sub-cultures aren’t getting much footing (and may never).

    Feeds are interesting but not very fruitful IMO and hashtags are new, so it’s a bit flat community-wise there, and many users are “wait & see” I suspect.