i find mastodon and similar a bit annoying, because i think they’re doomed approaches that refuse to ack the platform/network dynamics that they compete with

activitypub is fine, i guess, but it does nothing to build a commons that’s resistant to enclosure and where power is actually in the hands of users

In federated systems, sustaining decentralized governance depends on there being no scale or network effects at server level

The federated approach just devolves in the same problems as twitter, just many times over on a smaller scale. The fact that @ mentions pull people into private chats is also cursed.

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