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@weeble my general point is this: anything fedi does is only ‘better than twitter’ on the surface. building an audience is harder, because the audience is smaller and so vehemently against the idea of an ‘algorithm’ of any kind. building a community is harder, because instances and federation work against it, and getting “people recommendations” just isn’t a thing. if anything, fedi has more of a ‘clique’ problem than twitter does. (case in point, Yaseen)

you are not in any more control of your posts than you are on twitter. posts get scraped, indexed, whatever, and any malicious actor isn’t going to listen to bio hashtags. if we’re talking about “controlling your content”, you get slightly more granular control over who gets to see your posts on fedi than on twitter, but not by much, and even then there is no reason to believe any single instance admin is more or less hostile than a social media company.

fedi’s biggest selling point is that it’s “smaller”, which means that any issues that it does have are generally more isolated and not as visible. it also means that communities end up being tighter-knit because there are less people overall. but those problems are still there, and they’re not inherently much better (if at all) than they are on competing platforms.