By technical I’m referring mainly to ActivityPub/federation as well as the ability to host your own instances and related details.
The fediverse is ran by volunteers. Engagement is organic and isn’t trying to sell you something. Everything you see is there because someone thought it was worth sharing
it definitely feels more community-oriented with the lack of comment bots/ads. the ability for a group to just pick up and move should moderation get stupid has been proven and its just amazing seeing users working together towards a common goal as well as having the ability to achieve that goal without having to make new accounts anywhere. beautiful!
I like blobcats
I love the idea of online communities that are run by the people and not by massive tech corporations.
The idea that we had a free and open internet back in the day, only to surrender the entire thing to fascist corpo fuckwads like Musk and Zuckerberg, or hostile authoritarian government pawns like ByteDance, is a perfect example of the tragedy of the commons.
The Fediverse feels like our one and only chance to take the internet back on behalf of all people, all over the world.
People just getting along together
Authenticity.
Fuck ads, fuck bots, fuck karma farming.
The community and thus the people.
The inability for America’s unelected president to just buy it for 44 billion…
Much less bots and reposts. I feel like there’s less content, but it’s more real than I what I experienced on Reddit for example
75 procent of X posts are fake and generated by bots. You kinda see the same happening with YouTube and Facebook as well. I rather have less context but higher quality comments, posts and threads.
dead internet theory is real
It’s not so focused on the US. I live in the US and I’m getting tired of hearing about us.
thats actually huge for me aswell
It’s small enough that I can post a comment on something, and my girlfriend will independently run across my comment. Though she doesn’t read the usernames, so she doesn’t know it was me. Then I’ll mention it and she’ll say “oh yeah, I saw that comment.”
I see the same names appearing over and over again in different communities. This is, of course, because this is still a relatively small space, but it’s something that has the potential to remain true even as things grow, because we don’t all need to be in the same politics community, or in the same gaming community, etc.
There’s more active moderation.
Tan Eggs.
the @instance helps remember names, id just ignore names in reddit, adds or detracts credibility
It’s the most organic way of socializing
Run by us, for us.
Doesn’t feel like I’m constantly being sold shit while I’m here
The corporate web feels like a shopping mall, the indie web feels like a flophouse.
Uh, what’s a flophouse?
A cheap, run down, shady motel.
A cheap, flea-ridden (m)hotel, usually.
More generally “cheap housing inhabited by people who are down on their luck”
