Why should someone join the Fediverse?
I want to write an article that answers the question ‘Why should YOU join the Fediverse?’, which would basically be an exhaustive list of arguments for joining the Fediverse, each argument linked (LINKS PLEASE!) to an article/publication that illustrates it. I'll translate it into several languages.
Can you help me?
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Absolutely! The Fediverse is a fascinating and growing ecosystem of decentralized social networks, and there are many compelling reasons to join. Below is a structured outline of arguments for joining the Fediverse, along with suggestions for linking to articles or publications that illustrate each point. This will help you create a comprehensive and well-supported article.
Why Should YOU Join the Fediverse?
1. Escape Corporate Control
- Argument: The Fediverse is decentralized, meaning no single entity controls it. You’re not subject to the whims of corporations like Meta (Facebook), Twitter, or Google.
- Supporting Article: “The Case for Decentralized Social Media” by EFF
- Key Point:
... show moreForeword: I didn't write this answer. I am currently experimenting Deepseek it is shockingly good 🙄
Absolutely! The Fediverse is a fascinating and growing ecosystem of decentralized social networks, and there are many compelling reasons to join. Below is a structured outline of arguments for joining the Fediverse, along with suggestions for linking to articles or publications that illustrate each point. This will help you create a comprehensive and well-supported article.
Why Should YOU Join the Fediverse?
1. Escape Corporate Control
2. Privacy and Data Ownership
3. Interoperability
4. Community-Driven Moderation
5. No Ads or Tracking
6. Resilience Against Censorship
7. Diverse and Inclusive Communities
8. Ethical and Sustainable
9. Customizable Experience
10. Future-Proofing the Internet
11. No Algorithmic Feeds
12. Global and Multilingual
13. Support Open Standards
14. No Paywalls or Premium Features
15. Be Part of a Movement
Conclusion
The Fediverse offers a compelling alternative to traditional social media, with benefits ranging from privacy and autonomy to community and innovation. By joining, you’re not just choosing a new platform—you’re supporting a vision for a better, more open internet.
This structure provides a mix of practical, ethical, and philosophical reasons to join the Fediverse, each backed by credible sources. You can expand on each point with personal anecdotes, user testimonials, or additional research. Let me know if you’d like help with translations or further refinements!
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in reply to retiolus • • •The Fediverse is diverse. Do you want something looking like the original Instagram? We've got it. Just a Twitter-clone (without algorithms)? We got it too. Something like Reddit? Sure thing, why not! Something to track your books with? Yeah, that's around as well. Something doesn't exist yet? Don't worry, it eventually will! 😋
And the fun thing... Most of the platforms can interact with each other since they speak mostly the same language on the same network! You don't like the interface of Mastodon? No worries, go use Misskey or Akkoma or whatever! Mastodon-users will still be able to read your posts! No more moving to a nicer looking platform and finding out that all your followers have to move along too or you'd be shouting all alone into the void!
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in reply to retiolus • • •Good luck with "exhaustive" because people have different unique reasons to come to the fediverse. It would be a very long list.
For the average user I'd approach it with points that affects everyone:
- We can't have a Twitter-style take over
- We can't have a Reddit API disaster
- It's distributed so while parts of the fediverse come and go, you'll never lose the platform as a whole.
- It's distributed geographically so one hostile country can't silence information from other countries like Facebook and Twitter are doing.
- No algorithms designed to keep you scrolling forever
- No ads or commercial content being pushed by the algorithm
- Loads of choices for instances and moderation style for everyone's taste.
- Users get to choose how they want to browse and with which apps: you're not stuck with the latest crappy redesign you hate. You'll never be forced to have reels and stories in your feed if you don't want that.
- Not controlled by big corporations like Meta and Google, but rather the community for the community
... show moreGood luck with "exhaustive" because people have different unique reasons to come to the fediverse. It would be a very long list.
For the average user I'd approach it with points that affects everyone:
It's harder to onboard and figure out by the common people but it would be the final platform switch. You may move instances over time but you will never be left looking for a new platform because the old one enshittified. You just move to an instance that hasn't, done.
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in reply to JubilantJaguar • • •Yeah the best campaigns I've seen for the Fediverse were reactionary to something happening on big socials: Lemmy when the API fiasco happened, Mastodon when Elon bought Twitter, recently Pixelfed to replace Instagram, and Loops the last 2 weeks before TikTok was about to get banned.
People don't change because it's better, they change because they're pissed off at their current platform.
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in reply to retiolus • • •I usually just show them videos/videos without the Algorithm and a couple come on over. We also have !aww@lemmy.world and that helps.
Instead of trying to sell the Fediverse, I just sell the site without any ads. Quite a few are interested. Then I post on discord on different sources. A couple have come around. They technically dont know they are on the fedi.
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in reply to retiolus • • •Yeeeah, if you have to write a network of interconnected arguments in multiple languages the answer you're transmitting may not be the one you want.
Federated apps and communities may be better off spending more effort working to be appealing and less explaining why they think they already are.
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in reply to retiolus • • •Because the Fediverse is the exclusive home to my confusing but entertaining long winded rants. Look, I bought a great keyboard, and when I get home, I just like typing. So I shut my brain off and just GO OFF on someone, or some situation. My fingers get to type and type and type on a keyboard which I can only describe as "pleasurable".
Usually the rants are just me taking some minor thing I noticed or had happen to me and doing a deep dive rant. Just letting my inner monologue out into the world in text form. Or maybe an idea I have. I think my posts in /r/crazyideas are my favorite.
Here's a taste of me trying to buy hot chocolate.
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in reply to retiolus • • •The centralized social media have demonstrated again and again that content moderation at scale can never work well the way they do it. They are a menace to society. The problem isn't that Elon Musk is the wrong person to decide how a billion people should be allowed to talk to each other and which of their voices should be amplified, it's that nobody should ever have that power.
A diverse network of smaller instances where each is free to take its own approach is the future of social media, if it has a future.
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in reply to retiolus • • •My pitch is:
At the end of Web 1.0 and the start of Web 2.0 there was a rich ecosystem of forums, blogs (micro and macro), wikis, etc. However, you needed a different login for each one and the large social media companies, Big Web, saw their opportunity and made a more convenient offering - a site where everyone could go and talk to each other. That seemed great until a critical mass of people joined and then they found themselves locked into a walled garden, imprisoned by the network effect. That's when the enshittification started.
What the Fediverse is doing is rewinding to before the takeover by the Big Web and asking where the Small Web would have evolved to if it hadn't been sidelined. The answer is a protocol that would allow all those sites to speak to each other. And right there are the first glimmerings of the direction we should have taken - diaspora* and Friendica started in 2010, in fact it is felt in some quarters that Google+ (2011 until it was finished off by Facebook and Google's short attention span) lifted some features from them. Unfortunately, the
... show moreMy pitch is:
At the end of Web 1.0 and the start of Web 2.0 there was a rich ecosystem of forums, blogs (micro and macro), wikis, etc. However, you needed a different login for each one and the large social media companies, Big Web, saw their opportunity and made a more convenient offering - a site where everyone could go and talk to each other. That seemed great until a critical mass of people joined and then they found themselves locked into a walled garden, imprisoned by the network effect. That's when the enshittification started.
What the Fediverse is doing is rewinding to before the takeover by the Big Web and asking where the Small Web would have evolved to if it hadn't been sidelined. The answer is a protocol that would allow all those sites to speak to each other. And right there are the first glimmerings of the direction we should have taken - diaspora* and Friendica started in 2010, in fact it is felt in some quarters that Google+ (2011 until it was finished off by Facebook and Google's short attention span) lifted some features from them. Unfortunately, the Big Web smothered such innovations, and it is only now that the Fediverse's time has come.
The beauty of federation is you don't have to believe someone who is running an instance if they say they won't be evil, federation acts like a Ulysses Pact. y
You can't be evil because the barrier to moving is so much lower because the network effect doesn't handcuff you to one instance. If an Admin starts power-tripping, you can move to another instance and carry on where you left off.
Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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in reply to retiolus • • •No one CEO can ruin it.
Right now we're seeing a cycle of people jumping ship from one corporate-owned platform to another, until that new platform inevitably turns to shit. But as long as people keep doing that, corporate-owned platforms will inevitably turn to shit. The only true solution is to cut corporations out of the picture with platforms that are designed to be unruinable.
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in reply to retiolus • • •Because everyone miss the old OpenWeb ! We don't like closed API ! We don't like opaque and imposed algorithmes ! We don't like centralized closed plateform ! We don't want to be enslave to create data. We don't want their addicting mechanism, digitalizing heroin. We don't want blockchains to record every interractions we have !
All we want is Web0 ! And the Fediverse might be part of this better Open Web.
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in reply to retiolus • • •I can't give you sources or scientific evidence but I can give you my top 3 reasons apart of the obvious:
(At this point in time)
To be fair these will all be gone when there is more popularity