In case you missed it, the fediverse is under attack by a Pro-Russian Propaganda Network. You can learn more about it in the blog post from @iftas below.
Here are two things everyone can do to help combat this:
1. If you see an account posting or spamming Telegram links, report it. Many of the accounts are impersonating news outlets — check verification status, the account's follower count, or the outlet's website to confirm if the account is real or fake.
2. Donate to your local mods if you can, or at least give them a big virtual hug and say thanks. They've been working tirelessly around the clock to combat this and deserve our gratitude and support.
Hashtags are supposed to be from all the contacts that has a server in the #fediVerse, if the posts were published publicly. Their for mastodon.social with it's overwhelming user base should be connected to a very large percentage of the fediverse accounts (that's an interesting percentage investigation to do). It even has introduced full text search and I guess it's using it so that's another tool in one place to get a lot of the total info out there.
#friendica has relays, I never checked that option out but if you dig into it you'll find some answers. In the latest release it added "channels" to create streams of selected gathered information, another thing I haven't digged into yet. Actualy friendica and #
Hashtags are supposed to be from all the contacts that has a server in the #fediVerse, if the posts were published publicly. Their for mastodon.social with it's overwhelming user base should be connected to a very large percentage of the fediverse accounts (that's an interesting percentage investigation to do). It even has introduced full text search and I guess it's using it so that's another tool in one place to get a lot of the total info out there.
#friendica has relays, I never checked that option out but if you dig into it you'll find some answers. In the latest release it added "channels" to create streams of selected gathered information, another thing I haven't digged into yet. Actualy friendica and #hubzilla might be the ones that can tap into most info on the fediverse. Those communities, both inicialized by Mike, have kinda basic goal to create workarounds in the fediVerse to connect to everyone and everything. Thinking about it, friendica might be the oldest thriving #activityPub speaking platform out there.
My recommendation to check out friendica in your case would be squeet.me as it is run by one of the german main devolpers of that platform so it's always on the latest dev branch.
following activitypub, which is an unsorted mess of information overflow
That's an impression I get first of all in the #mastodon stream as every answer pops up like a single unrelated contextles bubble in once universe that most likely might create some declaration of war in some other distant universe that ultimately might just lead to a dog swolling some toy ball.
many () problems can be traced back to Homo Sapiens Sapiens
all of 'em, that's why spanisch is the choosen language in this case as it spells mono sapiens -> #VIATA At the same time, blaming the user while the boss considers them "dumb fucks" and gives out the instruction "be fast and break things" sounds like kinda victim blaming.
No it never does, it makes your world view distorted
That's what I mean by: their own disconnected reality. What wasn't to clear in my answer is that apparently they gathered into bubbles on places like fb and went of from there to GAB or apparently now a days #telegram groups. btw Every world view is distorted, by default, there is no way around that fact.
It is necessary sometimes to touch foreign subjects, meet new people, read unusual threads, outside your comfort zone. At least that’s my experience.
Bubbles are fine, not only for marginalized groups and can be helpful and uplifting. Point is when they lead to radicalization, "Tunnelblick", "Scheuklappen" (blinders). Actually they create an own norm, an own culture, an own tribe. That can lead to diversification that can be good and useful, why not. Kinda like always it's the concentration that makes it medicine or abused drug, that's why I wrote semipermeable as an important part of the setup.
#GAFAM created a asocial environment, some reasons you mentioned, the first reason because they could and it was good buisenes (for them). So "we" decided to go for the free network (redes libres/freie Neztzwerke) to disentangle and start all over again. My peers are my algorithm that create my feed of input. And as my vibes and emotional situation changes, I'll have to adapt my feed constantly if I want to stay in charge. If I refer that task to my smart watch I'm doomed to become aligned to a (main)stream others decide over. AI is going to make that most likely worse because it's becoming more and more complex and we rely on some coders that say "bad dog! baaad dog!" to the AI. Meanwhile in Myanmar some genocide is fostered, fb traces the data for their AI and the billionairs say: "Well, some workers died when the golden gate bridge was build, bad luck, that's colateral damage worth it."
Auf Telegram breiten sich auch Kriminelle aus. Wie können strafbare Inhalte gelöscht werden, wenn der Anbieter nicht kooperiert? Jochim Selzer vom Chaos Computer Club erklärt, warum der Staat machtlos ist.
Shady homebrew crypto that once got broken, crowning themselves as "savior of #privacy" when nobody can verify the whole stack, and now this: #ads in chats.
After centralized networks started their "war on Trump" many members of the federated social world made clear they don't want any of these people here either. Some of more vocal ones got very aggressive about it.
Something to ponder: #Gab claims to gain more than one million new users in a few days and now is almost down with capacity problems. #Telegram claims they got 25 million new users. #Trump approval rating last time I checked was around 40% so you can estimate potential audience.
Even if you cut these numbers tenfold because bots, hype, etc... it is still shitload of people who are sympathizing Trump and getting the axe now or just following the exodus. And I am pretty sure most of them aren't radicals simply because in every movement hardcore radicals are always the minority. The vast majority are normal people who are leaning towards it to various degree... show more
After centralized networks started their "war on Trump" many members of the federated social world made clear they don't want any of these people here either. Some of more vocal ones got very aggressive about it.
Something to ponder: #Gab claims to gain more than one million new users in a few days and now is almost down with capacity problems. #Telegram claims they got 25 million new users. #Trump approval rating last time I checked was around 40% so you can estimate potential audience.
Even if you cut these numbers tenfold because bots, hype, etc... it is still shitload of people who are sympathizing Trump and getting the axe now or just following the exodus. And I am pretty sure most of them aren't radicals simply because in every movement hardcore radicals are always the minority. The vast majority are normal people who are leaning towards it to various degree. At the same time people are not one-dimensional. Their political allegiance doesn't define them. They still do other things, sometimes they do interesting and useful things. They often have something to say which is not political slogans.
What can I say to the activists... Congratulations on pushing millions of people into new walled gardens instead of using this chance of inviting them into wider community and possibly influencing them in some positive way. Now they are on Gab - and you can bet they won't change for the better there.
Ir de #WhatsApp a #Telegram /#Signal puede ser un atajo pero el camino es el nuevo protocolo de @matrixdotorg@twitter.com, código abierto, comunicación descentraliza federada sobre HTTP permite responder al mismo tiempo mensajes de plataformas diversas. Nueva generación en el uso de la red https://twitter.com/cnnee/status/1350194825639976963
