My eyes don’t glaze over. I’m FURIOUS that they even exist, and have been since they killed myspace.
I knew back in 2008 something wasn’t right about facebook. I had no idea what, but I knew they were sketchy.
By 2010, I knew they were invading peoples privacy. I’ve never had a facebook. And yet, they have my phone number. My mom has facebook, and she stores my phone number in her contacts list.
I LOVED MySpace. It was a major part of my most formative years. But when it was sold to Rupert Murdoch it lost its soul and its Tom. If Facebook didn’t come along something else would have. We were beginning to get the internet in our pockets, do you remember how eager we all were for something else? Sadly one never knows they’re in the good old days until they’re gone.
Sigh I wish I could visit my page, listen to my embedded playlist, scroll through my comments, fudge with the CSS, rearrange my top 8, post a bulletin, all just one last time.
Speaking of bulletins, when I first heard of the fediverse, I had the total wrong idea.
I thought it would be like you can post on Lemmy, as a bulletin, and Masodon users could see it on their end. (Assuming they were subscribed to the poster).
MY envisionment of how the fediverse worked, based on my misunderstanding would have made for a WAAAAAAAAAY cooler site/collection of sites.
And the fictional ideas I had to take it further would probably make the fediverse the dominant social media standard.
It can work like that, and in some ways it does (Mastodon and Lemmy have a small amount of federation compatibility), but we aren’t really there yet. I think the real next step would be entirely disconnecting the interface from the content. ActivityPub allows this but we haven’t taken full advantage of it yet.
My eyes don’t glaze over. I’m FURIOUS that they even exist, and have been since they killed myspace.
I knew back in 2008 something wasn’t right about facebook. I had no idea what, but I knew they were sketchy.
By 2010, I knew they were invading peoples privacy. I’ve never had a facebook. And yet, they have my phone number. My mom has facebook, and she stores my phone number in her contacts list.
Thing is, what can I do?
You mean Mark “They trust me. Dumb fucks” Zuckerberg didn’t seem like a stand up guy to you?
I LOVED MySpace. It was a major part of my most formative years. But when it was sold to Rupert Murdoch it lost its soul and its Tom. If Facebook didn’t come along something else would have. We were beginning to get the internet in our pockets, do you remember how eager we all were for something else? Sadly one never knows they’re in the good old days until they’re gone.
Sigh I wish I could visit my page, listen to my embedded playlist, scroll through my comments, fudge with the CSS, rearrange my top 8, post a bulletin, all just one last time.
Speaking of bulletins, when I first heard of the fediverse, I had the total wrong idea.
I thought it would be like you can post on Lemmy, as a bulletin, and Masodon users could see it on their end. (Assuming they were subscribed to the poster).
MY envisionment of how the fediverse worked, based on my misunderstanding would have made for a WAAAAAAAAAY cooler site/collection of sites.
And the fictional ideas I had to take it further would probably make the fediverse the dominant social media standard.
It can work like that, and in some ways it does (Mastodon and Lemmy have a small amount of federation compatibility), but we aren’t really there yet. I think the real next step would be entirely disconnecting the interface from the content. ActivityPub allows this but we haven’t taken full advantage of it yet.