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Whatever the benefits of decentralization may be, hyping it up becomes a problem when it's presented as a workaround for ignoring the money question. The money question (i.e. "how are you funding this thing?") is what actually determines a platform's incentives—a problem that has been touched on but quickly brushed aside by major proponents of decentralization. Decentralization, they say, is supposed to make the money question irrelevant by making it easier for users to switch from one site to another. This argument overlooks the limitations of switching as a strategy, neglects to account for how things actually play out in practice, and fails to propose a less exploitative approach to funding social media.

Crossposted to Pillowfort and Neocities. For off-site linking, I recommend using the version on Neocities.

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By now a lot of people have been lured to Bluesky with a mistaken impression of what they're in for. Foundationally, the reason Bluesky was launched in the first place was out of a desire to do less moderation, and so Bluesky's approach to moderation is all about creating excuses for offloading responsibility. This approach has predictable consequences.

Spelling all this out is unfortunately necessary because of how widely Bluesky has been touted as better about moderation. Identifying the red flags should have been the job of journalists who do this sort of thing for a living—and with few exceptions, far too many of them have fallen down on the job, instead hyping up the place as "safe" and "fun" as though there's nothing in particular to worry about. Can't be any worse than usual, right?

So let's set the record straight.

Crossposted to Pillowfort and Neocities. For offsite linking, I recommend using the version on Neocities.

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If there is anything about Cohost that you think is worth replicating, then it's worth understanding why it folded in the end. In the wake of the shutdown announcement, I've seen several competing narratives and explanations for what happened, and sorting this stuff out matters for figuring out what kind of lesson to take from it. So in light of that, this retrospective is my attempt to log and detangle some of those narratives, starting with a brief recap to bring you up to speed.

Crossposted to Pillowfort. Note, feel free to link to this post. Linking is the way that I prefer for people to share my stuff on other sites, if at all.

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Originally posted to Pillowfort on January 4, 2022.

A post about Waterfall.social, its one-sided relationship with Pillowfort, and some of the eyebrow-raising choices involved in its development, funding, and promotion.

I did not find most of these links myself, but by and large I encountered them in private posts, so this is my attempt to construct more of a public overview. If you have sources to add, please link them in the comments. ( Read more... )

[Note: this post was originally made to Pillowfort on March 24, 2022.]

A few thoughts about the March 24th "Moving Forward" statement from the current dev team of Buzzly.

Note if this is the first you're hearing about Buzzly drama, you may want to go run a search for "buzzly" and "buzzly art." Some of the places this situation has been discussed are bluestone's Buzzly WTF post and PineAura's Buzzly Situation post.

In this post, I am more narrowly focused on the team's statement of goals/intentions and why their chosen strategy for those ends is absurd. ( Read more... )

[Note: this post was originally made to Pillowfort on Nov 30, 2020.]

Over on a certain viewlocked post about this month's Fanexus drama, a user discussed being put off by their application form, and I remarked that I could probably write a whole post on that alone. ( Read more... )

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Entries tagged with site management

Decentralization is Not, Itself, An Answer to The Money Question

If You've Signed Up for Bluesky, You've Signed Up for Offloadable Moderation

Cohost September 2024 Financial Debate Retrospective: Making Sense of The End

The Rise and Fall of Waterfall

On Buzzly and Purification by Fire

Thoughts on the Fanexus Application Form

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