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bethposting
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bethposting
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read an article about ActivityPub (the protocol Mastodon uses) and i'm kind of confused why some people seem to think it's utopian

i don't want follower and block lists to follow me to every corner of a federated internet. i don't want a single unified profile everywhere. that sounds fuckin terrible to me actually.

but they seem so into it! they seem to think this will fix all the issues with things like twitter and meta! i do not understand why they seem to think this

nullpat
@nullpat

every time I go on reddit or whatever and "log in with google" pops in the corner and I'm like "that is the absolute worst thing that could possibly happen in this situation"

garak
@garak

OK but for real though

Having a unified identity across different social contexts is something that is only possible for the "in-group" of a society. Because by definition, they way that they are in private is the thing that is blessed as "acceptable" in public.

Things like Code-Switching (linguistics) and pseudonyms and, to invent a term, "partitioned identities" are survival strategies for being part of an out-group. Any out-group. Race, gender, queer, religion, all of them. The idea of safe spaces is very similar, too.

Cohesive, non-partitioned identities are privilege. Believing it's "normal" to have a single, universal, connected identity is a type of privilege. Expecting it of others (much less demanding or enforcing it) is a type of oppression.

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jcolag
@jcolag

Some days, I feel like there's a contingent of tech writers who look at every new-to-them thing and say "oh, it must be like Bitcoin; I got this," and then pitch some dystopian fairy tale as both vaguely real and somehow beneficial. Because I see exactly this a lot, and it never bears any resemblance to what they think they're talking about, and also seems actively corrosive to a lot of the world...

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stu
@stu

i'm not the first to say this but mastodon is like twitter but you can Move To Canada if you hate the mods. personally think that smaller, interest based communities are a better model but that makes it harder to be an influencer so v0v

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widr
@widr

you're right, it's arse. they say they made it do some shit and that it will eventually do some other shit, but the shit it does it does poorly and with numerous caveats and there is no route for it to eventually do the other shit they talk about. it just cannot ever work. it's not getting better from here, it would literally be easier to reinvent it from the ground up. activitypub is a low effort unscalable MVP that escaped into the wild and got baked into a dozen terrible implementations; it's too late.

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