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A community dedicated to fediverse news and discussion.

Fediverse is a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe".

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Fediverse hot takes:

  1. The only true client is the browser.

  2. Microblogging be damned.

  3. it’s the instances/servers that are federated, not the users (ie us) … and damn that too.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (10 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

@mkarliner @fediverse I don’t like microblogging. Specifically, I don’t like it as a primary or dominant medium or platform structure. I think it’s bad for bringing people together, for having substantial or fruitful conversations or for aggregating wisdom/expertise.

It’s main quality is it’s Freeform random chatty nature, which works best IMO as a glue-platform between more structured platforms.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

@mkarliner @fediverse I like the analogy of a conference or exhibition. There’s the main event, which is held in (multiple) theatres or presentation rooms. This is structured. Usually a presentation of prepared material followed by managed Q/A time.

Then there’s the hallway/atrium. People mingle, socialise and discuss informally. Microblogging is the latter. The former is traditionally valuable. But both are good. But the latter on its own is poor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

@maegul @fediverse

I guess my trouble is I'm only good at one liners...

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