You owe nobody nothing on the #Fediverse. You can block their whole domain.
Or, if you're an admin, you can defederate from an offensive site, entirely.
Make no mistake: there are just as many offensive instances as there are inoffensive ones.
It's a continual task for a #Mastodon or other fediverse admin -- or, if they're big, their moderation team -- to shut down the trolls attempting to spam every single Fediverse instance in existence.
I know some folks on the non-Meta #Fediverse fear some sort of invasion, but I'm not one of 'em.
I think the distributed model has achieved sufficient network effect that we're looking at a sustained period of leakage from Threads to independent instances running FOSS software.
My prediction is that, long-term, opening the Walled Garden will only help the independent Fediverse eventually gain total and absolute, protocol-level dominance of social media. 8-10 years is my guess, before ActivityPub is the SMTP for social software. The HTTP. Backbone.
It just makes me want to write a Star Trek LCARS interface for #Sharkey.
Due to the way the #fediverse works for pretty much all apps, like #mastodon, your feeds have one simple algorithm: first-in, first-out (FIFO).
The only fediverse-connected app not using FIFO right now, that I know of, is Threads.
That means that the usual rules don't apply. If you want a robust feed, just follow pretty much anyone, randomly, if someone you already followed boosted them into your feed.
Follow generously.
When you boost, it keeps the toot alive. Most toots die on the vine, because it's not all one big pool of users, where discovery is as simple as doomscrolling until you agree. Plus, there's no algorithm, other than FIFO.
So also boost generously.
This is far more real-time than Twitter or Facebook. You're pretty much seeing posts that were just posted, or have genuinely viral staying power, because people keep boosting them.
@mcnado@mstdn.social It's not us liberals pushing that bumper-sticker slogan. It's the fake-ass very-online "leftists" -- the same type that voted for Stein in 2016 and gave us Trump.
@evan@cosocial.ca The thing is tho... for a people to have self-determination, they have to WANT it.
It's not at all clear to me that Gazans -- or even Palestinians in general -- have any such desire. It's not uncommon in traditionally authoritarian cultures to desire a strongman or men... though it's always MEN.
Remember: the two-state solution wasn't rejected by Israel. It was rejected by Palestinians. They didn't want a two-state solution back then... they wanted to destroy Israel, and have one state.
Do they want a state, now? That is also not obvious.
When was the last time Palestinians marched against Hamas? Where were they during the Arab Spring? Why hasn't there been an election in almost 20 years, when Gazans put Hamas in power over the Palestinian Authority?
You can't force self-determination onto a people who don't want it. You get a "Hamas" when you do.
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