Social media sucks. Platforms like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram are designed to turn your precious free time into money. What we see as a nice way to stay in touch with our friends, in reality are just many hits of dopamine stimulating precise spots in your brain, leading to you spending more time on the platform consuming ads.
But what if I told you that there is a huge ad-free social network out there, not governed by a central authority, full of great people and completely free to use? This place is called the Fediverse. Well, it’s not really a place, it’s many places.
See the 6 reasons and a good short overview of what the Fediverse is about at https://slashdev.space/posts/2021-01-18-reasons-the-fediverse-is-better
#technology #opensource #fediverse #alternativeto #privacy
One of the things that I’ve found odd in the Mastodon (especially) end of the fediverse are all these instances that are setup like the author describes - a microblogging instance for users who are into blue cheese, wear fedoras and never hold hands (or whatever supremely-specific thing they’ve gone for). I understand building communities around a thing, but it seems weird in social media as I feel that the notion of microblogging is more generalized than that, as the humans behind the accounts aren’t just one thing.
Should someone have 15 different Mastodon accounts that they need to bounce between? [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] ?
Maybe people don’t do that so much in reality… I just find the quite specific topic-based instances a little odd.