I’ve created my account barely a week ago, and already l’d made nearly 200 posts. Had it been Mastodon, this number isn’t a big deal. But while on piefed, this is pretty lot considering the overall span of time.
Now, the fediverse is not like the ordinary facebook or twitter. There, the posts are restricted to the platform you are using. Irrespective of how many people view your post.
But fediverse is a different ball game altogether. Here, you don’t know how many have viewed your post, unless they vote on it. Here, there’s also negative voting, and that might shake up your morales. While it’s a fact that any given platform of the fediverse has negligible users compared to social media like Facebook and Twitter.
But the danger lies elsewhere. Here, you don’t even know where your posts are reaching. And it’s very difficult to form an idea about your audience.
The only way out is post with a great deal of responsibility. If there’s the slightest error on your part, it doesn’t take much time to reach you as feedback.
Your take on the matter please ??😊😊😊
Here’s a start. If you’re thinking about “your audience” go somewhere else. Not everything exists for you to monetize.
and it’s very difficult to form an idea about your audience
What does that matter? Do you try to conform to others? You shouldn’t care or think about that. Just be you and interact with people based on your true intentions
It’s an important thought to have, and it’s been going around in other circles too. What you post here is public, and you have absolutely no control of where it goes or who it spreads to. I’m all for it, I think open socials are important to not lock out anyone, and if you don’t like something as an individual you can block and as a server owner you can defederate. The flipside though is that anyone can spin up a server and do whatever they like with what you post. Train LLMs, save in a gov database, just count votes, whatever they like. This is the tradeoff of corporate social media.
Isn’t this true for all social media, and anything posted on the public web?
Yes but that’s been lost on people unfortunately. It’s a lesson only millennials and gen X have retained in my experience, growing up with it we were drilled in to not trust anyone on the internet.
Boomers have forgotten and never learned it for themselves.
Gen Z grew up with walled gardens and thinking their accounts were private.
Thank you for the reminder.
Wanted to post this yesterday but I wanted to wait a bit more
Is that why it’s called fed-iverse and pie-fed?
Yup! It’s built off a collection of federated instances. Mean each instance is distinct, but still operates as part of a whole.
It’s not a monolithic platform like Reddit or Facebook that is controlled by a single entity.
(they were hinting at feds as in federal agencies, often used as a proxy for govts and 3 letter agencies, police forces, etc)
Yeah that went clear over my head after re-reading his meme.
understandable, happens to the best of us
Seriously though, if your takeaway is “be careful what you say on the Internet”… well, I guess it’s good that you know that now. Better to have known it before making 2K posts, though.
When did that sentiment change on the internet where this was somewhere you could privately say something? I remember that being beat into me as a kid. Everything on the internet is public and permanent, don’t post anything you wouldn’t want a future boss reading or read aloud in court. Somewhere that sentiment dropped when absolutely it shouldn’t have. It’s like people here don’t know that FB/Insta/all of them logged everything everyone ever said in giant databases ready to be handed over or leaked.
Seriously the Fediverse isn’t dangerous, the internet as a whole is. People need to stop thinking it’s “safe” to post things on the internet.
Excellent point.
I remember there was a LOT of docs that stated be careful what you post back when I was younger.
Something that has come up over the years that I dont see a lot of people talking about.
Just because your post/content is protected in your place of residence/country/state/city/etc… doesn’t mean its protected everywhere . When GitHub takes down projects because it violates some supposed law, it doesn’t need to check all the countries, it just needs to get the request from one in order to remove it. And all the forks. If you ever travel, you never know what laws you accidentally run afoul of with the internet being as public as it is.
Or in some cases…abortion rights depending on the state you are currently in. And then if you ever move…they may come after you and prosecute. It fucking sucks.
Being anonymous helps keep you safe. In more ways than one.
If my future boss read alound the writings of hubert manne I would find it glorious and bask in the adulation of my earth workmates.
I was actually posting pretty pictures, of strangers of course, until people started telling me all sorts of things. I had actually wanted to create a social media like Facebook and Twitter over here in the fediverse.
But ever since I have joined Piefed, l’m learning some tough lessons.
Interactions on Mastodon have been too frugal.
Title is stupid.
The greatest danger is spam invasions overwhelming human mods, and infiltration of AIs and trolls attempting to influence thought, even in this relatively tiny space, just because it’s open and free.
