Tootfinder

Well, I tried Nostr, as recommended by some folks over there who said it wasn't as bad as it looked.
Well, I'm here to tell you, it's worse than it looked.🤣
Some people think Fedi is too "tech bro"?!? Go there, realize your "username" is a 32 character long random string. Then, realize the only alternatives are to use a "free" one that you don't get to choose or deal with domains and server files....🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Dead on arrival. I tried. Not worth my time.
I am BeAware, not hyrulesquirrel45 or npub4928447372584863
#Nostr #SocialMedia #ConfusingAsFuck

Oh this could be *a* future:
https://stadt-bremerhaven.de/nootti-app-erlaubt-es-ueber-ein-interface-bei-bluesky-mastodon-und-nostr-zu-posten/
But we've seen multi clients in the past decades comin…

Nootti: App erlaubt es, über ein Interface bei Bluesky, Mastodon und Nostr zu posten
Die App Nootti ermöglicht es, unter iOS bzw. iPad OS und an Apple Macs, Posts sowohl bei Bluesky und Mastodon als auch Nostr einzustellen. ...

If I push a post to Mastodon, which other services should we require collect explicit permission to read that post?
* Other activitypub services like Misskey and Hubzilla that allow users to follow you from other software?
* The wordpress plugin which fetches the post with activity pub & copies it into Wordpress?
* The bridge between Nostr and Activitypub which enables people using Nstr clients to follow Mastodon users and vice versa.
* The coming bridge between Bluesky and Acitivitypub which enables people using Bluesky to follow mastodon users and vice versa.
* Threads, Facebook's service which uses Activitypub to enable people using Threads to follow mastodon users and vice versa?
Click those which should require opt-in permission.
What makes the difference for you?
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Non-Mastodon Acitivitypub servers
Wordpress plugin
Nostr Bridge
Bluesky Bridge
Threads Bridge

Because people can't click a link and read it that way apparently, I'll post images from the Fediverse wiki page here that supports my claim that AP is the Fediverse. If anyone has anything else to say that isn't covered in these images, I'm willilng to entertain it.
But don't come into my replies saying "AP isn't the only protocol that's a part of the Fediverse" because I'm literally covering that right here, right now.
Sorry, I'm an…

When an ActivityPub server issues a follow-request to another ActivityPub server on behalf of a user, there is currently no space in the protocol for any kind of "this follow is on behalf of a user from a corporate network" kind of field.
There's not even a user-agent to specify it's it's Mastodon or Misskey or whatever making the request.
If we're going to engineer this place for consent then we're going to need better options than just "Accept follow request by default" and and "User individually vets every follow-request"
Seems like people want to be able to specify that follow-requests should be accepted by default from some software/networks but turned into vet-every-follow-request if the user asking to follow is using Wordpress plugin or Threads or A Bluesky Bridge.
"Accept only Mastodon requests by default, let me verify Misskey and Soapbox users, but deny Threads and Nostr bridges"
is quite a complex demand from a user. What user-interface would people like to see for that?

SLIGHT rant about how Nostr works and comparing it to BlueSky, Fedi, and other platforms in terms of moderation.
Well, I just learned a bit about Nostr.
It's basically "Bluesky, but FOSS". You have your account that has more control of moderation for the user.
The difference is that on Nostr nobody can "ban" per se because nobody has control over each other. It's block and mute. That's your moderation and you do it yourself. Nobody does it for you, unlike Fedi or BlueSky.
I gotta say, that's where a lot of you really need to go to have your eyes opened to what the Fediverse is really like for those of us on single user instances and the sheer amount of work unpaid moderators and admins do here to keep these instances as "nasty shit free" as they can.
Awhile back I kept seeing things like "Other platforms have moderation issues, there's CP and all kinds of other nasty stuff there".
There's all that here too, you're just privileged to have people with massive amounts of passion for this place and do the unpaid work to block and remove all that shit.
If you actually had any control in what you're allowed to see or not see, it can end up being the wild west for all things bad. Which is okay for those who don't mind blocking and muting endlessly (What Fediverse unpaid mods and admins do every day), but I'd bet a lot of you won't want to do that because it sounds HARD and potentially gross and traumatic.
So, whenever you think "that other platform is bad because their moderation sucks". Maybe, just maybe, think about if you would want to sit there all day looking at nasty shit like CP and other sexual crimes/hate speech/scams/etc. and have a little sympathy for the actual people who do. Because it sucks and it does exist here, you just don't see it.
#Fediverse #Nostr #Fedi #BlueSky #Threads #Moderation #Mastodon

I rank the social networks like this, in order of being the actual owner of the things you are publishing:
1) Fedi (self/community-hosted)
2) Nostr
3) Fedi (Someone else's server)
4) Bluesky
5) Telegram
6) All the horrible-corproate-fuckbollocks
I rank the private message apps like this, in order of how actually private they are:
1) Matrix
2) Signal
3) Whatsapp (though, yes, the content of the messages you send with your surveillance app are encrypted, but it is still a surveillance app, FFS)
4) Telegram - This is not even a private message app, this is a public not-encrypted message app. Why is it even on this list? It might as well say "email".
5) Email.
Which ones do you think my actual friends prefer?
#fedi #nostr #bluesky #telegram #matrix #signal #whatsapp #email