"Most people want to opt-in to what they want to follow, be that a news feed, a celebrity, a friend, or family. Most people do not want to be force-fed a constant stream of manipulated content to catch and keep their attention." #LibremOne
https://puri.sm/posts/opt-in-no-ads-and-no-tracking-solve-a-lot-of-problems-in-society/
I'm opting OUT of buying products from companies that take free software projects, rebrand them as their own and then charge money for them without giving credit to the original creators.
I suggest you do too.
@purism The thing I love the most about this is how closely the Smilodon fork has been designed to mimic real in-person interactions--you don't have a "timeline," you talk to people that you know, they mention things other people told them, you go talk to those people, etc...it's all very organic.
The thing I don't like (or that remains to be seen) is how I can't interact in groups with people. The Fediverse essentially uses local servers/timelines for this purpose. But if I want to talk...(1)
@purism ...about carrots, I want to go to a "carrot" server, or a carrot group. I want to talk about carrots with people who I wouldn't otherwise talk to unless they were talking about carrots, and I don't care to hear from unless they're talking about carrots. And the same is true for those who follow me: they may like some of my content, but not the carrot posts. So to me, there needs to be a better way to discover, participate in, and isolate discussions of interest than hashtags. (2, end)
@purism Interesting, I see where their coming from now. Which leads me to two thoughts:
So they think by opting out of discovery they can opt out of curation, and just be a communication platform. Might be reasonable, but the other admins will need to figure out how to handle it - say by filtering out of the public timelines.
But on the otherhand I do think that if you offer discovery you do need to curate, otherwise it's useless at best.