I am continuing to work on scaling up mastodon.social and mastodon.online to handle the traffic and I've got @Nigma to help answer inqueries over on Twitter
Let me apologize for neglecting this project -- CommLab and Hellsite -- for the last few months. It's on my mind constantly at this point, and my motivation is there, so things are gradually creaking to a start again. I hope if you have any ambitions for alternative social media that you'll get in touch with your ideas, experiences, and contributions!
Interoperability would end that balancing act: you could leave Facebook and stay connected, eating your cake and having it, too.
So while there's room for improvement in how Big Tech moderates, that's just part of the story. The advantage of giving people the technological self-determination to move to communities where the norms of what is allowed and what is banned is that it makes the inevitable Big Tech mistakes *less important*.
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These are the barriers that prevent co-ops, nonprofits, startups and others from creating products that blast holes in Facebook's walled garden - services that let you leave Facebook without severing contact with the friends, communities and customers who stay behind.
High switching costs have kept the fediverse from taking off: people hate Facebook, but they love their communities, and so long as the latter is greater than the former, they won't jump ship.
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So why do so many of us feel like we have to stay on these platforms whose judgment we don't trust? In two words, it's "switching costs." That's the economics term for everything you have to give up when you quit a product or service, like a social media platform.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/facebooks-secret-war-switching-costs
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It's ... something... lol, but I need an image to post to other networks because if I put a link in the message body they do NOT show people my posts!!
Scrappy queer