@evan@prodromou.pub @evan@identi.ca ( and formerly @evan@e14n.com ) has said this a few times, but here it is again.
"Every time you post on Twitter, you produce value for the advertisers.
You tell everyone in your network there that it's OK to stay. That you're all helpless to leave.
You tell the people who've lost their jobs, the people who are being hounded and harassed, that they are not important to you.
You know you're going to be ashamed of it later.
Just stop posting.
Do it here, not there. Connect here, not there.
Don't reply, don't like, don't retweet.
Stop feeding your life into the machine."
This was true before Elon #Musk bought #Twitter, but I guess it wasn't as important before.
I don't fully agree, simply because there may be some advantages to many people who continue to use Twitter instead of moving to the #Fediverse (e.g., #GNU_Social, #Mastodon, #Pleroma, #Misskey, #PixelFed, #Lenny / #Lemmy, etc) or they would have moved over already.
Also, because unless one self-hosts one's own presence, an angry instance admin is all it takes to lose all posts and connections and have to start over. Or, if one has contacts on a different instance, then irate instance admins participating in #blockwars (including #fediblock) can separate the person from some portion of their contacts.
So remember, everything that Twitter is or can do to you, your Fediverse instance can also do. Most instances will never do most of those things, but pretending that one is safe here could result in disappointment in the future.
@liaizon I guess that's sort of what the federated Reddit-a-likes are? But the question is, how could a user make use of the links aggregated on instances of #Prismo, #Lemmy etc to improve search results?
2 people are currently working on an #opensource federated #reddit alternative, called #lemmy. They need some open source #developers to help them enable the federating function.. #activitypub
♲ @felix@radical.town: I wrote down a basic list of requirements for #ActivityPub federation in #Lemmy. Its a lot of work, so if you are interested in a federated #Reddit, we are happy about any contributions.
@drequivalent there are already a number of projects working on specialized UI for navigating groups and threaded conversations, federated over AP. The Reddit-a-likes like @prismo , #Lemmy ( @LemmyDev ), Littr.me ( @mariusor ), #lobsters, #Guppe ( @datatitian ), #MoonTree , and #Pantheon. Friendica and Hubzilla also have groups that could be federated over AP, although I don't think they are yet.
@jasper check out projects like #Prismo and #Lemmy, which are building a Reddit-a-like UI using #ActivityPub for federation. Not sure how interop with microblogs like Mastodon and Pleroma will work yet. But #GNUsocial has a groups system, which gives an idea of how it could work. @trwnh
@wion The reason for having info-sharing and organizing discussions here is the same as your reason for having watercooler chat here, you don't need to get everyone to join one forum/ chat room for every topic they might be interested in. #ActivityPub includes protocols for federated forums, which is possible in OStatus using !groups. Projects like #Prismo and #Lemmy are trying to build a federated replacement for silos like #Reddit/ #HackerNews using AP. These will improve archiving even more.
@loke#ActivityPub supports the groups functionality and there are projects like #Prismo (@prismo) and #Lemmy (and #Anancus but dev seems be dormant) are building federated forum platforms using AP groups. I'd love to see !groups return to the #fediverse is some form, but I suspect these #Reddit-a-likes are probably a better UI for it. @bob@Wolf480pl