<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>I've been trying for years to get people to move off of facebook onto open platforms and for the first time in a long time, people are actually willing. what will make the difference this time is how mature the replacement tech seems. One of my friends groups has migrated from WhatsApp to Signal and, because it supports all the stickers and animated gifs, they've embraced it.<br><br></div>The early migration to Diaspora failed because the platform was buggy and slow. It's able to cope now, but has uncensored Nazis systematically posting abuse to the #newhere posts made by LGBT people. The moderation is non-existent, and the 'ignore' button is barely functional. These problems are baked in to the design and there's no momentum to fix them because the dedicated user base are oblivious/immune to abuse (or are actively participating) and have ideas about free speech that are slightly problematic.<br><br></div>Mastodon is great and while there are a LOT of 20 year old communist furries, I see more and more middle aged people joining. Also, the kids take hate speech very seriously and their moderation policies and infrastructure are sound.<br><br></div>There's a peer-to-peer video service gaining traction called PeerTube and some work is being done on p2p systems to replace tumblr and reddit, but I haven't been following what's going with that.<br><br></div>I don't think the Diaspora platform is salvageable without major intervention. However, Mastodon, itself, was a major intervention for GNUSocial, so another user of the protocol could solve the moderation problems. Friendica and Hubzilla both speak the diaspora federation protocol, but I don't know much else about them. I briefly got a friendica account, but the user interface I saw needs work.<br><br></div>@celesteh@algonoise.social<br></div>@celesteh@mastodon.social<br></div>@<a href="mailto:celesteh@joindiaspora.com">celesteh@joindiaspora.com</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 March 2018 at 22:43, Paula Graham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paula@fossbox.org.uk" target="_blank">paula@fossbox.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">I've not had problems when talking about geek stuff but know a lot of female/queer/trans who've been set upon for talking about gender/sexuality issues - not just on twitter but also on diaspora. A lot queers moved to mastodon a year or two ago in order to be able to manage that problem better - also some people are uncomfortable on the isil platform of choice. <br>
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I was also badly savaged on the London Linux list once for picking someone up for using the word 'slut' (about a 14 year old friend of his daughter's ye gods). There's sometimes an unfortunately thin line between open source and breitbart when it comes to women and queers :-o<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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P</font></span><div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 March 2018 22:07:18 BST, Chris Clemson <<a href="mailto:Chris.Clemson@gogreenit.net" target="_blank">Chris.Clemson@gogreenit.net</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="m_-4185566063068779106moz-cite-prefix">On 26/03/18 08:08, Paula Graham wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Diaspora
filled up with hate speech, I like mastodon but it does seem a bit
twenty-something - be nice to expand the age range a bit?<br>
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Diaspora seems fine to me, but then I only really follow geeky stuff<br>
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