We're learning now just how broadly manipulated twitter is. It was manipulated internally as we found when the Twitter Japan staff was fired and their site fundamentally changed, and also externally because there's an algorithm and money to be made manipulating that algorithm.
It's a fundamentally different thing over here. There is no algorithm, everything is organic, and so arguably there isn't even a benefit to having one message with lots of engagement unless you actually want to engage. Actress who played breakout character on popular TV show has the same play as the guy who posts racist ducks (except people really like the racist ducks, they're hilarious...)
But more importantly, dear God don't think that you're fleeing a "free speech twitter" that's scary and evil because people can say anything Elon lets them to and coming to somewhere that's more locked down and more likely to be free of stuff you don't like!
According to The-Federation.info, the fediverse roughly contains 13,815 individual servers running the better part of 100 different software packages (not all software packages support the ActivityPub protocol but are listed on the site because they support some other form of federation). New servers are created and old servers are shut down every single day. Server admins choose the TOS, they choose the rules, they choose how to enforce those rules, and there's literally every sort of person. Some servers are hosted on the most powerful computers known to man, others are hosted on parts scavenged from roadside signs, and everything in between. There's countless takes posted every second that would immediately get you banned from facebook, twitter, youtube, myspace, tiktok, instagram, or any other commercially owned service. The libre and distributed nature of the platform means that those takes aren't going anywhere, the closest you can get is hiding messages or accounts or servers as you see them.
It's a fundamentally different thing over here. There is no algorithm, everything is organic, and so arguably there isn't even a benefit to having one message with lots of engagement unless you actually want to engage. Actress who played breakout character on popular TV show has the same play as the guy who posts racist ducks (except people really like the racist ducks, they're hilarious...)
But more importantly, dear God don't think that you're fleeing a "free speech twitter" that's scary and evil because people can say anything Elon lets them to and coming to somewhere that's more locked down and more likely to be free of stuff you don't like!
According to The-Federation.info, the fediverse roughly contains 13,815 individual servers running the better part of 100 different software packages (not all software packages support the ActivityPub protocol but are listed on the site because they support some other form of federation). New servers are created and old servers are shut down every single day. Server admins choose the TOS, they choose the rules, they choose how to enforce those rules, and there's literally every sort of person. Some servers are hosted on the most powerful computers known to man, others are hosted on parts scavenged from roadside signs, and everything in between. There's countless takes posted every second that would immediately get you banned from facebook, twitter, youtube, myspace, tiktok, instagram, or any other commercially owned service. The libre and distributed nature of the platform means that those takes aren't going anywhere, the closest you can get is hiding messages or accounts or servers as you see them.
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