The Continual Reinvigoration of Mastodon And the Fediverse at Large

So it’s happened Again. Something on twitter has blown hundreds of folks over to mastodon and the rest of activitypub. This is great from a fediverse user perspective because the new blood is quite nice. There is opposition from a number of quarters.

• Those that object to FOSS for some reason
• Those that have been burned
• Those that have fud’d

FOSS haters

From this quarters are those who feel threatened by the idea of source being accessible to people, alternatively it’s potentially paid astroturfers, but given how capitalism seems to produce people to suck up to anything, no matter how bad, I’d believe most of them if they said they weren’t paid.

The Burnt

The fediverse has quite a history of interpersonal drama. On various levels from one on one harassment to massive dogpiles. In this respect it is entirely identical to corporate social networks, as they too have terrible interpersonal conflict that turns nasty quite easily.

The FUD

Did you know twitter can read your DMs too? Did you know that twitter moderators have been caught abusing their power?

What will happen

Probably, many of them will just drop off the fediverse as it turns out to not be the haven from bullshit they may have projected onto it, or been misled into thinking it was. It’s a place full of humans being humans, mess and all, and some of that mess brings positive things, others are bad.