Public Firehose Project Shutters After Backlash
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News flash you dwebs, if it is on ActivityPub, it is not private, there is no encryption.
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It was literally an alternative UI for the https://mastodon.social/public feed
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I mean... if you spend time actually discussing the fediverse, it IS a shitshole. We drove off fucking Alec of Technology Connections for crying out loud.
It is the problem any message board had where the "old guard" get really pissy when they see new people who aren't making the same in jokes and deferring to them at every step. So you have endless bullying and shitposting and so forth to make sure they understand "the community".
Mastodon is still awesome if you mostly get ignored by them but it goes to shit REAL fast once they see people are having fun and it doesn't involve them. Been scaling back over the past few months as a result.
Lemmy is doing a bit better. In large part because most of the horrors are confined to the tankie servers. But you still get the groups of people who make the olde reddit "I am technically correct and you will respect that" crowd seem to be not that bad.
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it kind of is
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How’d people drive off that YouTube tech reviewer?
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Same thing initially happened with BridgyFed: https://wedistribute.org/2024/02/tear-down-walls-not-bridges/
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Yeah, that was the Content Nation debacle: https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/contentnation-mastodons-toxicity/
What's really sad is that the CN dev is actually a super nice and thoughtful dude. In his jurisdiction (Germany) he could've gone to prison after being caught with said materials.
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We did WHAT?!
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There's a small, but extremely loud segment of the Mastodon userbase that seems to view presenting public posts in any manner that's different from how a vanilla Mastodon server does as an invasion of their privacy. There have also been a few projects that raised reasonable concerns about privacy and moderation, but this page doesn't seem to make a distinction.
It appears to contain misinformation about FediFirehose, which ran client side and just showed the output of a public relay.
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The fediverse is "the internet". Like, in conception, it's taking everything that's publicly available on the internet and making it auto-mirrorable-at-request.
So yes, on some fundamental level, it's a shit show. Because the internet is the worst of us.
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It's not nearly a small enough segment, really. It's a fairly significant fraction of the pre-2022 population.
They were excited to see people show up after Musk bought Twitter, but it was a very "now you'll have to play by OUR rules!" kind of excitement.
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Just bullies who unfortunately think they own the place.
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This is more than bullies, this is criminal, child abuse.
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We drove off fucking Alec of Technology Connections for crying out loud.
Sorry but we are better off. I love his videos but his presence is toxic. Some people just love to argue and he is one of them.
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Fediverse users are not inherently good people. They're just people.
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