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@_elena

I could not agree more. The Fediverse has to convince the folks to come here not blaming other services that we even don't really know, yet.

Instead we are welcoming new folks with arguing why they have chosen the wrong Fediverse SW instead of the much better other SW. This is scaring away so many new users, and would be worth to work on.

We should keep proving that we are better not claiming that other solutions are worse.

@ed this. 100% this.

Elena, je comprends ton exaspération mais pour répondre à la question, tu te fatigues pour rien. Surtout maintenant.

Au bout d'une vingtaine d'année de militantisme sur ces sujets. J'en conclue qu'il est vain de dissuader les gens aller sur ces plateformes. Tous les arguments qu'on mobilise, en paeticuler celui sur la vie privée et la surveillance de masse n'ont pas d'effet. Les gens sensibles à ces arguments sont déjà parti. C'est une minorité.

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@narF trust me I checked but it was already taken.

that being said, you’re speaking to the proud owner of wsocial.it 💁🏻‍♀️
@squirrel @joakimfors

@nopatience I second that.

A video addressing the nearly 60% of Members of the European Parliament still active on X would be beautiful.

leavex.eu/politicians

What would happen if prominent politicians had official, active accounts on the Fediverse? Public attention would certainly follow, as would journalists, who are obligated to track and report on political figures.

People don't leave the Fediverse solely because of technical hurdles. Many arrive, look around, and simply don't find enough reasons to stay. Retention is not just a usability problem, but also a matter of social density and relevance. With a sufficiently large and visible group of active participants, the Fediverse could generate its own gravity and flourish beyond the tech-savvy community.

"why did they choose the ATProto?"

The cynic in me: because it's centralized.

Governments may talk a big talk about things, but at the end of the day, they're legacy systems and they want control.

Alas, too many seem to have not acknowledged that the Internet is already an intergalactic system of collaboration and already operates at scale of billions of users with billions of packets per hour.

Legacy meatware governance is obsolete, but the transition period is going to be long and drawn out and in the interim, a lot of "reinventing the flat tire" will presumably play out, ad nauseam. ;(

We already had end-to-end encrypted realtime libre/free open source "federated" (I would use the phrase: "distributed") systems such as SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) before ActivityPub (or twitter or Facebook, etc.) was ever conceived of in the first place. But, why was it never popularized? It circumvents centralized control and the "powers that be" don't like not being able to ratchet down on others. Class warfare is their paradigm, so they prefer to perpetuate such things, rather than normalize new paradigms which make themselves obsolete. ;-/

IRC? XMPP? FTP? HTTP? Other plaintext by default protocols, very popular! Spies just love spying!

Note: SILC isn't alone, there's PSYC2, GNUnet and other libre/free end-to-end encrypted comms systems; but as much as some may claim they want such things, what seems to gain traction and momentum every time? Over and over again? Insecure, centralized, systems. If you follow the popularity and the "money" it's usually the same old dirt bags behind the scenes pulling the strings.

CC: @_elena@mastodon.social

@juergen they've been so myopic about the whole thing that they forgot to register some key domain names.

I grabbed one this morning and some of my followers did the same yesterday and told me about it.

This is resistance at work 🤗

@0xtero I found out some really disturbing things about this initiative and I don't want to stay silent. I may write a blog post about it, collecting and sharing the evidence... so that if people appreciate what I write, they could point others to it (people looking at the initiative with interest or journalists for example).

And hey I grabbed a domain name that is PERFECT as a short URL / to redirect to my article. Sometimes staying silent on these things is dangerous

@NatureMC I'm planning to write a blog post about it - I'm pretty strong at the SEO game and I'd like to write an article with evidence that people can easily find / refer to.

I only grabbed one domain name for 4 Euros... some awesome fedi people have grabbed other TLD in the same spirit.

An article I wrote years ago on my blog exposing a big company still gets lots of hits - a decade later!

I simply can't stay silent on this...