If we didn't live in a universe of an obviously (over)reactionary electorate this might be the ideal.
The problem is consensus building takes time, as long as political wins are narrow you're reinforcing the outage cycle.
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More importantly the issue was tracked and resolved publicly.
The issue of trust in corporate spaces gets used to bury these things, this is a good model on how to restore it in the open.
I think some of that devolution going to be inevitable or you're going to face charges of censorship from some corners, which is just it's own cycle of rage. The network gets bigger, people click what they click and the aggregate of what our animal brains react to has a lot to be angry about.
What I worry most about is the acceleration of that cycle because we gradually gravitate towards instances with our preferred moderation or slant, which I can already see happening anyway.
I guess, at best, that It might be a cure with some side effects because it's necessarily going to play with in/out crowd dynamics.
If this is at an instance level... Fine? As long as it's visible.
I'd worry you're promoting some amount of information siloing if the current general purpose instance structure doesn't hold though.
I've got 2, largely out of curiosity for what defederation meant as far as user perspective.
When exporting comes online I'll likely make an effort to spin up an instance if it's still feasible... So there will be a 3rd cake?On the positive side I don't think you're going to find many people wanting to sock puppet mild takes and noise rock.
Probably true. it's the agencies who are desperate and likely to be looking to chatGPT to outsource ad copy who are going to be looking to capitalize.
No community is really above being targeted, because the good campaigns done by people in the niche tend to be indistinguishable from good posts.
This is near inevitable if this platform takes off.
Advertisers gonna advertise.
From a lifetime of small message boards It's easier to drive engagement in smaller groups. If there's less overall exhaustion with the basics in any niche, splitting the new members is a good way to keep differentiated material. Also growing communities can end up boxing out their regulars. It might be hard to get started, but the small communities tend to be resilient at some point, they just migrate service to service.
Most of the people who moved here were especially motivated to overcome the barriers to entry to, so I'm not sure the numbers still hold.
One can hope, even as far back as Usenet the overall general self interest is always a pile-driver to the platform.
I think we'll all be around to find out. Whether they end up federated with everyone else is up for debate, but the products still follow the eyeballs.
Advertisers especially are going to note how high engagement is compared to the other platforms, the rest will take care of itself eventually.
It's a well founded worry.
Activitypub represents the lowest dev entry costs and as a bonus it comes with an audience. If Facebook is standing up a cheap competitor just to take advantage the barrier to entry is miniscule.
Given the trouble some users have noted deleting content (erasing also kills your Instagram account), it might also be a play to deprecate a duplicate platform under their control.
When the barrier to entry is technical in nature you get a selection of the competent in that space as your representation. It's not perfect, but it beats zuck, musk and Huffman.