On leaving Facebook
I haven't killed my account over there or anything. I'll probably keep it in a dormant state because there are just too many situations where I might need it.
THAT SAID
I don't even need to get on a high horse about ethics or the new administration to be bailing on Facebook. My feed there is a disaster. Half of it is groups I didn't follow. I don't know when they added that "feature." Before the election, those unfollowed group posts were inflammatory political crap. Now, they're mostly AI-generated fake images.
And speaking of AI-generated fake images, I clicked ONE VIDEO on their video shorts and managed to train the algorithm that I want to see fake videos of AI-enlarged sea life. That's absurdly specific. How is that even a category?
I get the argument that Facebook holds so many relationships that will be hard to keep up otherwise, but it's gotten so hard to find content from any of those relationships that I'm not sure the argument makes sense anymore
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Messing around with Friendica is fun
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Info for Bluesky folks
OK, so compatibility between Friendica/Mastodon/fediverse and Bluesky is not as straightforward as Friendica led me to believe. I think Friendica is a bit optimistic.
HOWEVER, Lifehacker showed me the answer.
If you would like to follow me from Bluesky, use: bsky.app/profile/echoweaver.kl…
If you would like me to follow YOU from Bluesky, follow bsky.app/profile/ap.brid.gy . Then let me know.
Here is the documentation: fed.brid.gy/docs#bluesky-get-s…
Hello Bluesky
This public post will hopefully show up through a fediverse-Bluesky bridge. My bridged Bluesky account should be:
bsky.app/profile/echoweaver.kl…
Susan Rati Lane (@echoweaver.klatch.club.ap.brid.gy)
[bridged from https://klatch.club/profile/echoweaver on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]Bluesky Social
Bridgy Fed
@Daniel Lowe have you looked at this service? fed.brid.gy/
It claims to connect Mastodon and Bluesky.
Sigh. you're not wrong.
I have a philosophical reason for banging on this so hard -- I think the only way that dropping Facebook can gain traction is if we can get a critical mass of people we want to interact with away from it. Consolidating all the Facebook alternatives is one way to make that happen.
I find Bluesky kind of creepy in a way I can't fully define. I hoped that the bridge would work so I wouldn't need to make an account there. But right now it has several times the number of users I want to interact with than the fediverse.
It's just another billionaire's pet project that is architected specifically to avoid criticisms of content sorting and moderation. "We federate so you can make your own!" These systems are all friendly until their growth curve stops, at which point they start the money extraction.
I think what's creepy is just seeing the same thing happen again and again.
Well, I have 10 "Contacts" now
Even though when I look at my list of contacts, only 8 are listed. I know I have a friend request out to Cindy, so I assume that's counted?
The default permissions are private, but I believe that a private post can only be seen by other Friendica users. All the bluesky users are marked as, "I follow them," rather than "mutual friend." Even though Friendica says it's sending contact requests to Bluesky users, I'm not clear if those requests are real or not.
This post is set to public, so everyone who knows how to find me here should be able to see it. Feel free to comment to say hello if that's a thing you can do...
I think your "latest" only applies from the time you started following, but if you go to my profile, you can see everything you have access to. Some of this is probably bound by federation etiquette - if you were to follow someone on another server, the system wouldn't download everything they'd ever posted.
The bullseye icon also shows all the conversations on the server you have access to.
I've been trying to settle in a bit on Friendica. Grouping my relationships into "Circles," reminiscent of G+. Unlike Mastodon, there doesn't seem to be any hashtag lists, which I miss. The interface would accommodate them though, I think.
Losing nearly all my followers is kind of tough. There's no Mastodon -> Friendica migration. On the other hand, maybe it's like a mark-and-sweep gc. The followers who actually wanted to follow me still are.
I'm still intending this to be a public instance, but I want to do some theming and policy work before I start putting it on directories.
I created this Friendica instance to be my new home now that octodon.social is shutting down in a bit. I was hoping some people would follow me from Facebook but you can guess how that's going.
I think I actually prefer the Friendica interface for my Fedi content. That was unexpected.
Huh, Octodon is shutting down? Weird, but I guess I haven't heard anything from them in quite a while.
Guess that's my backup account out, then. Not that I've really used that one since setting this one up.
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Susan Rati Lane
in reply to Daniel Lowe • •Hmmm. That makes a lot of sense.
Enlighten me on the dead internet theory.
Daniel Lowe
in reply to Susan Rati Lane • •Basically that, statistically, there are no more real people on the Internet. It's just bots advertising and trying to scam bots.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Int…
Crystal Wolf
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in reply to Crystal Wolf • •💖💖! This feels really good. I want to be able to chat with friends like this. It's just that, like a lot of people, falling off Facebook was so good for my mental health that I didn't want to try returning.
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