Social media sucks. Platforms like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram are designed to turn your precious free time into money. What we see as a nice way to stay in touch with our friends, in reality are just many hits of dopamine stimulating precise spots in your brain, leading to you spending more time on the platform consuming ads.
But what if I told you that there is a huge ad-free social network out there, not governed by a central authority, full of great people and completely free to use? This place is called the Fediverse. Well, it’s not really a place, it’s many places.
See the 6 reasons and a good short overview of what the Fediverse is about at https://slashdev.space/posts/2021-01-18-reasons-the-fediverse-is-better
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3·4 years ago- Centralised sites have been known to have outages up to a few hours affecting all users. But I think it was more about centralised sites like Twitter being very easy to block by governments, and frequently done. Decentralisation allows for more flexible / or not rules, giving choices, and allowing interest based nodes to flourish. Decentralised (and usually federated eg. with ActivityPub) means one friend can be using Pixelfed as their Instagram type usage, while another friend can be on Mastodon for Twitter type micro-blogging, but they can still interact with each other without being forced to use the same social network.
- Yes I think it meant not only not easy to block, but also not easy to monitor via a central point.
- And anyone can, and do, start up their own instances. I created my own Hubzilla node with me as the sole user, so I could fully manage functionality and my own rules. True generically on Subreddits and hashtags but a proper instance or node does give that like-minded community more control, and more so if they are a fringe group of society.