Ingo Steinke is a web developer focusing on front-end web development to create and improve websites and make the web more accessible, sustainable, and user-friendly.
Fediverse reminds me of Usenet, but before I elaborate on that aspect, thanks @carlymho for the introduction to the fediverse! This post is worth to rediscover now, as Mastodon and other fediverse servers like chaos.social get more new users annoyed of mainstream (anti)social networks with their biased algorithms and dude-ish "chief twats".
Everyone, please remember that the decentralized independent federation is mostly run by non-profit volunteers, which is the whole point about being noncommercial, so the next step after signing up and completing your profile is to find out how to donate some money (often easy to do via Patreon) to keep your fediverse provider running! For the popular Mastodon server, see joinmastodon.org/sponsors.
There has been renewed discussion about the difference between federated and centralized social networks and their culture and values.
Unlike Twitter and Instagram, the fediverse reminds me a bit of Usenet, a decentralized network of knowledge and discussion that has been here long before the world-wide-web brought us forums and so-called social networks with sparkling multi-media online content and addictive algorithms. Although Usenet was mainly text-based, people also managed to exchange images and other files as well. Usenet was not only decentralized in terms of ownership and responsibility, but it was more resilient against anyone taking control, taking it offline, or introducing a paywall to use it.
The main difference between Usenet and forums on one hand, and modern social networks on the other: in social networks, you follow and interact with people, and topics are an optional secondary aspect added using hashtags.
The "Web3" movement, often dismissed as a fad by gamer kids trying to get rich quick, has expressed some reasonable criticism against (the current mainstream) "Web 2.0" being centralized and controlled by an oligopoly of commercial corporations trying to manipulate its users.
While I don't agree with the technology-obsessed solutions proposed by Web3 thought leaders, trying to add even more technology, I prefer that we remember the times before the world-wide web and revive some of the ideas that were vital to the internet from the beginning, like decentralization, resilience and robustness.
Mastodon and the rest of the fediverse are a chance to rethink the way we want to use technology and communication. Let's take back control and conceive another take on a future web that puts people before technology.
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Fediverse reminds me of Usenet, but before I elaborate on that aspect, thanks @carlymho for the introduction to the fediverse! This post is worth to rediscover now, as Mastodon and other fediverse servers like chaos.social get more new users annoyed of mainstream (anti)social networks with their biased algorithms and dude-ish "chief twats".
Everyone, please remember that the decentralized independent federation is mostly run by non-profit volunteers, which is the whole point about being noncommercial, so the next step after signing up and completing your profile is to find out how to donate some money (often easy to do via Patreon) to keep your fediverse provider running! For the popular Mastodon server, see joinmastodon.org/sponsors.
There has been renewed discussion about the difference between federated and centralized social networks and their culture and values.
Unlike Twitter and Instagram, the fediverse reminds me a bit of Usenet, a decentralized network of knowledge and discussion that has been here long before the world-wide-web brought us forums and so-called social networks with sparkling multi-media online content and addictive algorithms. Although Usenet was mainly text-based, people also managed to exchange images and other files as well. Usenet was not only decentralized in terms of ownership and responsibility, but it was more resilient against anyone taking control, taking it offline, or introducing a paywall to use it.
The main difference between Usenet and forums on one hand, and modern social networks on the other: in social networks, you follow and interact with people, and topics are an optional secondary aspect added using hashtags.
The "Web3" movement, often dismissed as a fad by gamer kids trying to get rich quick, has expressed some reasonable criticism against (the current mainstream) "Web 2.0" being centralized and controlled by an oligopoly of commercial corporations trying to manipulate its users.
While I don't agree with the technology-obsessed solutions proposed by Web3 thought leaders, trying to add even more technology, I prefer that we remember the times before the world-wide web and revive some of the ideas that were vital to the internet from the beginning, like decentralization, resilience and robustness.
Mastodon and the rest of the fediverse are a chance to rethink the way we want to use technology and communication. Let's take back control and conceive another take on a future web that puts people before technology.