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Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment (www.techdirt.com)

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[-] bizzwell@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

I really hope platforms like Lemmy and Mastodon take off. Just the idea of no single person with control over how we all communicate and share ideas gives me hope for the future.

[-] Helix@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

sadly, Mastodon currently still is pretty centralised around a few very big instances. I hope the Fediverse gets more decentralised…

[-] Lowbird@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think if one of them goes sour it'll be easier for people migrate to another mastodon instance, and for that instance to grow. When Twitter goes bad, there's not just a convenient alternative exactly-Twitter-but-run-by-different-people around the corner. But those small Mastodon instances could grow if they had an influx (to a point, and probably better so if the influx was gradual).

Edit: especially because federation means that the people who move to the new instance can still see and interact with everyone on the old instance, so they can't be held to the old instance merely by the presence of their friends on that instance. Unless the old instance blocks federation with wherever people start moving to, but still.

[-] bizzwell@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

What does it take to facilitate this? Do individuals have the ability to help it along, or does it take more resources? I'm new to this but would like to learn.

[-] Helix@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You just have to (encourage others to) register on an instance with less than, say, 1000 active users. I think that's already taking care of most of the issue.