Re: Thoughts on directions for a rebooted SWICG

Could someone remove me from this list? The link I was given at the
beginning was only to subscribe. It just said "you are already subscribed"
and did not give an option to unsubscribe.

I no longer believe in federated social media. I think it is inherently
worse than centralized social media, which itself is not very good either
generally. Decentralization makes good moderation incredibly difficult and
creates a social power structure where wealthy techies have more social
power and influence than everyone else because they can host a server which
they own and control. Mastodon is like a feudal system it's awful.

After the misogynistic treatment I received from Eugen when I was on the
Mastodon development team and the way Mastodon's community has harassed and
stalked me, my friends, and my family—while being egged on by Eugen.. I
would really like to put federated media in my past and not be reminded of
it again. So someone please remove me as the W3 website does not seem to
allow me to remove myself.




On Thu, Dec 1, 2022, 1:07 AM Johannes Ernst <johannes.ernst@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> new to this list, but watching for a long time, and Hi to a bunch of
> friends here! Who would have thought some gazillionaire would kick-start
> ActivityPub adoption through his own ineptness? Or whatever it is. But we
> shouldn’t complain, whatever helps, we take it!!
>
> I like Erin’s points. I would suggest framing the question like this —
> perhaps this is one of Erin’s themes:
>
> Assume the Twitter exodus continues and the fediverse grows by 10x. And
> then by another 10x. (we can debate the exact factor): what will break? Why
> will it break, and what can we do that to avoid / remedy that?
>
> Some of us are old enough to remember what happened to Usenet when AOL
> users showed up. (Random memory: top posting became common which used to be
> a reason to be banned from some groups. Many of today’s users have never
> seen anything else, and it arguably helped reduce quality of conversation..)
> It appears “AOL" users showing up in the fediverse is a very similar
> scenario.
>
> Some breaks will be technical: e.g. server loads, sheer linear
> processing/communication time with a disproportional growth of max follower
> count by some accounts etc
>
> Some breaks will be in governance: e.g. arbitrary moderation,
> unaccountable even malicious operators
>
> Some breaks will be political: e.g. left and right wing servers
>
> Some breaks will be financial: e.g. how long does volunteer moderation
> work if the user base grows by 10x or 100x and includes all those d**b
> “AOL" users?
>
> Some breaks will be in values: what if — wild idea — all the “best"
> servers were to become sponsored/branded/policed by major brands who then
> introduce ads and surveillance etc?
>
> And some will be malicious: how long until somebody introduces
> ever-so-slight protocol errors to degrade the entire network?
>
> So perhaps there is some kind of matrix: Erin’s themes as rows in the
> matrix. The above list (or similar) as the columns.
>
> Anyway, just some thoughts, glad to be here, and glad this group is
> re-awakening.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> Johannes.
> reb00ted.org
> linkedin.com/in/jernst
> @j12t@social.coop
>
>