We should be trying to invent online social spaces that are much, much smaller, and I think it's possible to do this without losing the benefits of large social networks:
https://www.brainonfire.net/blog/2023/06/19/groups-should-go-small/
@varx Two questions about the blog post:
1) Discourse is open, so if a person likes Discord why can't they move away using Discourse?
2) "imagine a protocol designed to facilitate cross posting" ... Isn't that ActivityPub, where you can link e.g., Mastodon to PeerTub?
@lwriemen I'm not sure what you mean about Discourse. It's a sort of forum software, right? Not really a replacement for chat. I imagine someone moving away from Discord to an open alternative would choose Jabber, Matrix, IRC, etc.
Re: cross-posting, the difference here is that Mastodon and PeerTube are actually part of the same network. Or at least, nominally; federation is clunky and weird enough that they don't *feel* like part of the same network. Consider, though: When you post on a PeerTube server, someone on a Mastodon server who is following automatically sees it. There's no cross-group sharing involved, because all of those ActivityPub posts are happening in the same "place". Even boosts are just increasing visibility within fedi, not sharing across to a different place. Fedi is one large group with millions of users; it's just internally fractured.
