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I understand and obviously agree or else I wouldn't be vaguely gestures to everyone around him

But let's not live in fantasy land. Capitalism rules the internet and like it's old predecessor Feudalism there's one rule. Bigger Army (bank account) diplomacy. None of the other rules matter if you're big enough to write them. Nobody will willingly give up their level of control of the internet and everyone who takes it will do so with the objective of replacing them not dethroning

I mean, this is what the internet started out as; and I think we're slowly coming back around to it.

Anyone wanna join my webring? I mean...uhh...my fediverse? Or whatever?

Just use Mastodon and Lemmy.

Not going to happen. The majority of users are tech illiterate. They have no idea to set this up nor any desire to pay domain name fees and web hosting fees....

Only a few techies like us might do it but nothing more than that.

Plus it doesn't work the way they think. I already have a blog and occasionally post there and share it to social media. All the interaction, if there is any, happens on social, not on my blog.

Blogs are simply a place to post long form content but not designed for massive amount of replies and social interaction.

"Stuff posting"

So, BBSes and Newsgroups.

What, you thought social media was ever anything more?

Everything old is new again. But are we gonna go back to dialup modems for a purer analog hipster lifestyle?

This is how the Internet was always meant to be. You're supposed to create and host your own content, then link to content on other sites. Silos are useful but they've gone too far. An established system for sharing media like this needed to happen.

As much as I love decentralization and activitypub, this is very ignorant for ignoring lock in and network effect

I have a blog and a gallery on my own domain. I just want a system for people to interact and recommend my blog and photos that isn't WordPress, and that is so damn hard to find. A federated wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff that connects existing sites.

Wish someone would build one that made it really easy to connect to everyone in your email and phone contacts. Instead we have Twitter 2 electric boogaloo.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Instead of a half-dozen platforms competing to own your entire life, apps like Mastodon, Bluesky, Pixelfed, Lemmy, and others are building a more interconnected social ecosystem.

In the last year or so, though, particularly after Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition alerted users to how quickly their platforms can change or die, POSSE has gotten some traction again alongside ActivityPub and other more open ideas.

POSSE’s problems start at the very beginning: it requires owning your own website, which means buying a domain and worrying about DNS records and figuring out web hosts, and by now, you’ve already lost the vast majority of people who would rather just type a username and password into some free Meta platform.

Reece says he’s interested in building tools to aggregate and make sense of replies, likes, comments, and the rest, but it’s a much harder prospect.

Reece mentions a tool called Bridgy, which both allows cross-posting and aggregates social media reactions and attaches them to posts on your site.

Modern social networks are not a single product but a giant bundle of features, and the next generation of tools might be all about unbundling.

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