Bloonface
Well.
I have closed my public instance, finecity.social, binned my account there and moved back to mastodon.social. My bots will keep running on calckey.bloonface.com but I won't use that site for anything else any more.
I have fallen out of love with #Mastodon and #fedi in a big way, I don't intend to use it much any more. The past couple of weeks has crystallised that this isn't really a platform I like much.
Bloonface
Let's just say the blunt truth here:
It's not going to be Meta or Project 92 or whatever that kills fedi, it's the fact that every time anyone suggests a way in which normal people can use it in the same way that normal people use social networks, the entire network shits the bed and starts screaming about keeping the outsiders out
But then also the same people heap judgment on people for still using Twitter when Twitter actually gives them what they want
Bloonface
For #fediadmin or #mastoadmin:
I could not find a way for Calckey to gracefully exit federation on the level of tootctl self-destruct. As such, you will possibly have dead account or domain records on your server relating to finecity.social. You can delete these, the server is dead and not coming back.
I am basically kind of sick of my social media feeds revolving around pointless inter-instance squabbles and hyperbolic Chicken Little shit about Meta.
The Lonesome Driver
You've been here since 96, so you must have used IRC. Remember how IRC has always had multiple networks, each thriving with its own base of users, and none of them doing things like pushing societies to the brink of civil war?
We are not meant to interact in global networks that throw everyone into a context-free battle royale. If you want that, have fun on Bluesky my dude, but what yall Metaheads miss is that we like it how it is here, it doesn't need to change.
Have fun.
Bloonface
On that subject, I distinctly remember a selling point of fediverse being that some dickhead rich guy couldn't come in and shut it down and corrupt it
But now if Mark Zuckerberg so much as wafts a toot in Mastodon's direction, the entire network will collapse and be ruined
Which of course has been used as yet another excuse for one of fedi's favourite sports: intra-instance beefs and purity testing!
Bloonface
Meta doesn't give a shit about killing ActivityPub because the entire system of ActivityPub speaking servers is quite literally a rounding error in Meta's user figures
"Oh but I don't know anyone who uses Instagram or Facebook, they must be dying networks" then you're fucking weird, sorry, they have two billion - with a B - users
I have tried plugging away at fedi for so long and it's a waste of time, effort and money
Bloonface
Bluesky came in and ate Mastodon's lunch simply by not presenting itself as an overly-complex user-unfriendly network full of hostile people who can cut you off from your friends because the admin of your server thinks the admin of their server thinks they are a poohead, on which the number one subject of discussion is fedi itself
Meta might actually be able to solve that problem for you but apparently that's going to make the sky fall in so that's bad too
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