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I’ve been collecting links to post, blog, article, comment, etc that criticize the fediverse, whether it’s about the specific apps or fediverse in general, whether it’s about the technical aspect or about the social aspect.
If you also found one, feel free to share it here.
(date format is YYYY-MM-DD)
2024
- https://lemmy.world/post/11519703 - Lemmy is a bigger echo chamber than reddit, 2024-02-03
- https://lemmy.world/post/11720592 - Lemmy users lack nuace and it stops actual discussion., 2024-02-08
- https://lemmy.world/post/12352000 - Lemmy is not immune to trolls, bad fait actors or propaganda - in fact, despite how bad reddit is, a lot of Lemmy instances are worse, 2024-02-24
- https://wedistribute.org/2024/02/tear-down-walls-not-bridges/ - Tear Down Walls, and Build Bridges, 2024-02-13
- https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/contentnation-mastodons-toxicity/ - Content Nation Backlash Highlights Mastodon’s Toxicity, 2024-03-02
- https://reddit.com/r/fediverse/comments/1b76cbo/fediverse_is_not_so_good/ - Fediverse is not so good…, 2024-03-05
- https://kevquirk.com/blog/linux-elitism-again - Linux Elitism…Again, 2024-04-14
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/1g1g844/why_is_mastodon_struggling_to_survive - Why is Mastodon struggling to survive?, 2024-10-12
- https://lemmy.world/post/19004972 - Lemmy wouldn’t really takeoff to replace Reddit until it’s content is search indexable, 2024-08-24
- https://evergreenfiles.com/blogs/the-fediverse-desperately-needs-sustainable-file-hosting - The Fediverse Desperately Needs Sustainable File Hosting, 2024-11-04
- https://lemmy.world/post/22316287 - I really want to like Lemmy, 2024-11-22
- https://bsky.app/profile/techconnectify.bsky.social/post/3lbs4ihb2gs24 - Technology Connection’s thread on Bluesky about Mastodon being a ghost town and more, 2024-11-26
- https://transfem.social/notes/a16rvjhkk34b00tf - […] if you are explaining the fediverse to a non-tech person, “it’s like email” is not a sufficient explanyation., 2024-11-30
2023
- https://pawb.social/post/42756 - “Tanky” and the perception of Lemmy., 2023-06-14
- https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt - Mastodon Is Easy and Fun Except When It Isn’t - Erin Kissane’s small internet website, 2023-07
- https://lemm.ee/post/873456 - I miss reddit, 2023-07-09
- https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/16zq1dd/the_lemmyverse_aint_all_its_cracked_up_to_be/ - The Lemmyverse ain’t all it’s cracked up to be, 2023-10-04
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I’ve got an interest in the decentralized protocols and have written about them before, so I’ve got a bit of a disorganized treasure trove of articles, opinions, and blog posts I’ve gone through at some point. As a side note, shutout to the single file plugin for Gecko & Chromium based browsers, it’s a great way to grab an archive of anything you might want to reference later.
I went through my list of archives plus a few things that came to mind that I’ve read/watched, below are things that (at least in part) take a more critical look at Activity Pub as a protocol or community.
Blog Posts & Articles:
- How Decentralized is Bluesky really? - A post by Christina Webber who goes over pitfalls of both AT and Activity Pub
- ActivityPub - one protocol to rule them all? and ActivityPub - Final thoughts, one year later. - two posts by Dennis Schubert, the Diaspora dev, on why Activity Pub was not integrated.
- Mastodon is fun and easy, except for when it isn’t
- Mastodon is dead in the water
- Community is not enough - A post about funding issues
- Please Don’t Share Our Links on Mastodon: Here’s Why! - Mastodon starts DDoSing servers if your link goes viral
- Microblogging Protocols Compared v2 - My own post comparing the big three protocols. Be warned, it was supposed to be a smaller updated & corrected version of an older post, but it ballooned in size.
- Mastodon isn’t decentralized and won’t be the next big thing
- Something About The SWF Makes Me Feel Icky - The Social Web Foundation has taken on some big corporate donors and it’s leader has a very protectionist/anti-other-protocols position.
- Fringe Mastodev - A collection of thoughts regarding what Mastodon developed into
- Nostr is Identity for the Internet - A post discussing the values of Nostr’s identities (and decentralized identities in general) as beneficial over other alternatives (such as Activity Pub’s server controlled identities)
- Scaling Mastodon is Impossible
- Twitter rival Mastodon rife with child-abuse material, study finds
- Linux Elitism…Again - Guy is nearly bullied off the fediverse for saying it should be tolerant of Windows users
- Op-ed: Why the great #TwitterMigration didn’t quite pan out
Lemmy Threads:
- What made everyone move to Bluesky or Threads instead of Mastodon?
- Why is Mastodon struggling to survive?
- Why are people preferring BlueSky over Mastodon?
- Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem
- Do you think the mostly limited range of political views is a strength or a weakness of Lemmy? - Post discussing Lemmy’s echo chambery-ness
- Off-topic flamewar about US domestic politics - There were a bunch of low effort political bots discovered on Lemmy (key word: discovered; meaning high effort bots are probably flying under the radar). I was unable to find the original thread, it may have been nuked but most likely I just couldn’t find it.
Vids, Social Media Posts, & Misc:
- Cristina Webber thinks Activity Pub as it is now may collapse
- Technology Connections left Mastodon - the comments are particularly not nice to Activity Pub
- Child Safety on Federated Social - A study on child abuse materials permeating the fediverse
- Chris Titus leaves Mastodon for BlueSky
- Activity Pub doesn’t handle usernames or migrations well
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