Was Don_Dickle banned or something?

Right now it’s not just decentralized. It’s fractured. It should operate as decentralized, but from a performance standpoint it should feel like it’s centralized.

Remember, most normies won’t know or care what decentralized even is. But the reason sites like instagram have users isn’t because it’s centralized. It’s because that’s where the content is.

Peertube is suffering HARD from lack of content. Which is why you want celebrities bringing exposure to the fediverse. They bring content.

Go outside to a popular public place and ask 100 people in person how many people have heard of the fediverse. I’d be SHOCKED if 1 person knew what it was.

Now get a popular youtuber like markiplyer, or good mythical morning, to post their stuff exclusively on peertube, and suddenly 2-6 million people all flock over and create accounts.

I don’t know who Artie Show is. You could have told me you were Artie Shaw, and I’d have not questioned it. I’d have just thought that was your name.

It would solve the issue for people who look into it. But what if I registered AstralPath@Lemmy.World? I could pretend to be you. And because most people won’t check, I’d get away with it until people caught on.

Now if you make your living off your public image, and I say horrible things, your career could take a hit. Even if nothing I said is true, and its proven it was never you.

People will just remember “Hey, remember that time AstralPath admitted to having sex with their grandmother?”

“No, that wasn’t actually them.”

“Are you sure? I remember reading about it in (insert tabloid here)”.

And suddenly you have a legit reason not to use a platform that easily ruins your career through no fault of your own.

People will ALWAYS attempt to troll online for the memes. Remember Boaty McBoatface?

Then people won’t sign up for it.

The fediverse as it stands right now is confusing enough as it is for new people. Now you’re saying you want to add in the chaos that comes from everybody being annonomous? They say that the internet, and trolling, and threats of violence are encouraged online because you’re annonomous. And now you want to highlight that feature on a service thats hard enough to grasp without nazis and death threats.

they will always flock to centralized platforms anyways,

I’m trying to change that.

since they are all about the views.

Which is why if we make the fediverse normalized for celebrities to host content, they can get more views here.

I fully believe that this fediverse concept CAN be the future of the entire internet. Services that don’t even exist yet can integrate with the fediverse, and it can scale easily by it’s very nature. But there’s a LOT of rough edges that keep the normies away…for now.

Right now, the fediverse is more than just decentralized. It’s fractured.

Imagine posting an update on something, and it goes out to your mastodon, your Lemmy community, your pixelfed, and your peertube accounts. All at once. You wouldn’t follow services, you’d follow people.

But we’d need all these services to integrate with each other nicely. And part of that would be making it so you don’t have 7 different accounts for 7 different services. You have 1 account, and sign up for each service under that account.

All your notifications would go to the same place.

Your identity would be your username. People would know if it’s your username, it’s you.

Except in this case, there can be no corporate green to destroy the fediverse. They can build and destroy their own instance, and their own communities…but the very nature of the fediverse is that it scales well, and it CAN’T be owned. So growth can only help. Temporarily it may crash the servers with more traffic than it can handle, but more instances and servers will be added, and the userbase will spread out.

Except they won’t.

This solves the issues of having the same username across all platforms, assuming you host an instance for every platform you want to use. And also mske those domains private. But it doesn’t address that same username being used on another instance/domain.

Like imagine someone had the usernsme Ada@someoffensivedomain.social and was impersonating you. If you made your living off your name, an imposter would affect your image.

Ah, just as well. I found out via this thread that there is no episode this week

I can’t ask, because years ago I watched a video on twitter. It was funny. I tweeted “That killed me”.

I was banned for inciting death threats by an automod.

They’ve never heard of mastodon.

And unless I just have no idea where it is, youtube doesn’t seem to have a direct messaging system. Everything these days is twitter.

So I’m trying to change that.

Because there can only be one taylorswift13.

There aren’t multiple instances on twitter.

But it would.

Imagine Kamala Harris as president had a mastodon account. And somebody else made a duplicate Kamala Harris account. And this duplicate announced that the United States has gone to war with Russia.

Except these media stations don’t know how the fediverse works. They don’t know what an instance is. They just see Kamala Harris on social media announcing war.

And in media you HAVE to be the first to break the news story. So now you have every major news outlet confirming nuclear war, and the nation is panicing.

Meanwhile, Harris is trying to figure out how this all started. And this whole thing maybe lasts 10-60 minutes before somebody notices the mistake. Then it takes time to correct themselves and calm everybody down.

All over something that isn’t happening. All because people don’t check sources.

Now this is an extreme example, but I could see it happening if the fediverse was bigger, under it’s current setup.

Right now Lemmy has something like 16K users, and a few hundred instances. Most of which are small instances hosting less than 10 users.

What I’m suggesting is a few hundred thousand instances, with millions of users, if not billions.

And I assume the instances would face a point where they need organization. So certain instances start hosting certain types of content.

So if you personally don’t want to read on home and garden topics, you don’t read those instances. That’s what I’m suggesting. If you want to stick to your small corner of the fediverse, you do that.

What you’re suggesting is that the fediverse never expand beyond the people you deem worthy of contributing content.

I tried to give peer-tube a chance. None of my youtube creators are producing content on peer-tube. I gave up when every single instance I found was just linux content.

With more celebrities bring more content. With more content brings more users. With more users brings more communities, and more niches.

I’m trying to bring down reddit, and instagram, and youtube, and twitter, and everything else thats considered social media. In its place, social media will default to the fediverse.

You on the other hand are trying to keep the fediverse from growing.

Except no one will. If millions of people were on the fediverse, maybe 1% would confirm.

We live in a world where people read the headline and believe it, but don’t even open the article.

I’m not using any client. I’m just using the browser that came with my cell phone.

With the celebrities come their followers. Which is like 97% of the world. I’m trying to get that 97% to adopt the fediverse.

But they don’t come on their own. They go where their celebrities go. The celebrities bring content for their followers to consume.

I’m just using a web browser that came with my phone. And if they were all hidden, it wouldn’t matter.

You’d just register your username. And this would be good for all the fediverse platforms. Once you register your innitial name, only you could register other services under that name. So it’s always you. Even if you never register for a service, you registered the name.

Then, if you register a new service, even years later, you still have your name.

You don’t want the fediverse to grow?