RideAgainstTheLizard @ RideAgainstTheLizard @slrpnk.net

Sustainability and decentralised social media enthusiast 🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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When I post here I get replies. On mastodon I don’t.

Good point :)

You're rude

That's fair. Say you were setting up a server and you planned to migrate users to it, and it was going to be their first experience of the fediverse, do you think this is something you'd feel obligated to tell them about?

Sorry I forgot to address your point - migrating people to a more technical setup would be a challenge in itself, but then informing them that deletion across servers isn't guaranteed would likely give them cold feet.

I'd hazard a guess that ActivityPub users are a small portion of the population, especially considering the people I'm thinking of setting a server up for are Facebook users in a medium sized town - mostly people over the age of 40 who only started using social media in the past ten years.

It's no secret that onboarding is a barrier to entry for Mastodon for example, and even then most people likely haven't even heard of it. I am the only person on any of my social circles who is aware of it.

I think it's fair to say that we can all end up regretting some of the stuff we've put online months or years after the fact.

For example, it means ActivityPub is definitely not an appealing place for young people to have their first cringe moments online.

The risk of being cancelled is higher, and I think everyone has the right to regret their past self and try to clean it up if they want to.

The fact that the delete button can only guarantee deletion on your own server is not robust considering one of the primary appeals of the fediverse is that servers can communicate with each other. It means unease/distrust is built in from square one.

Update: So far many of the responses point out that if you post anywhere on the internet you are prone to this issue, i.e. even if you delete something someone may have copied it etc.

I do believe this is different. Yes, we are always at risk from malicious actors, but usually when using social media we can operate under the assumption that the delete button works. That is not the case for ActivityPub. Even without bad actors, your content may not be deleted. I think it's safe to say that this is an unappealing issue for most potential users.

I've happily found that there is much more interaction here than on Mastodon :)

New sewer pope

Hint: They went well beyond justified methods a long time ago

I've never heard of the term Edenizing until now. Sounds nice, I'll start researching!

Nice! I wonder if they plan to integrate Pixelfed with Loops so they can work as one app - replace the Instagram/Reels combo

Imagine if we had swarms of little insect-sized robots that could sort waste working alongside specialised organisms that then eat that waste.

My partner is vegan. I am not, but since we met I've been eating a lot less meat and animal products because we like to cook for each other at home. I remember walking past a butcher a couple of years ago that had beef cuts hanging on hooks by the window and it made me feel sick - for the first time I was seeing it as flesh instead of "meat".

The irony of using an AI generated image for this post...

AI imagery makes any article look cheaper in my view, I am more inclined to "judge the book by its cover".

Why would you slap something so lazy on top of a piece of writing you (assuming it isn't also written by AI) put time and effort into?