#defed
Why would you go back when folks cross pollinate AND most money is spent if defed or AI ?

The people who want the content of diverse discourse aren’t truly supporting it or the people who make it
December 15, 2025 at 12:39 PM
*happily waves back!*

I'm delighted! It's been my privilege to follow your work for a minute.

Love love love your take on affordances of defed. Great for so many things, but I worry it won't allow or enable the people to build communal discernment and counter the state monopoly on narrative.
December 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The way I hit follow on you so fast because YES !!!! I’ve been trying across three chapters and two predictions to say something like this especially around how social media served as a public archive and how while defed has good points it’s missing that key aspect

*waves at you happily*
The big archival question

My other concern is that venture capitalism already has a helluva track record (trying to) enclose and paywall cultural heritage.

Institutional archives are already elitist by nature. Techno-archives will be a privacy and authenticity nightmare.
Considering the way these companies move who is maintaining independent verification of these documents ?
December 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I applied four separate times to focus on moderation and federation kit focused in defed. I’ve volunteered to talk . People don’t think my opinion matters ? Cool

THAT IS THEIR RIGHT it’s not the thing they want. They get to make those choices
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Moderation and curation was always the real draw of platforms and bluntly I don’t like defed because EVERYONE involves ignores the implications of technosolutionism

And

If I’m not willing to build it.

I gotta ride with it

People feel entitled to demand so yeah nah
December 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Because let me tell you the next big fall out ?

Is gonna be defed moderation
November 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I would like to have something like either allow-list federation where there's a hole in it that allows a federation request. Or set up something where I get alerts upon interactions with new servers so I can defed if need be. The latter probably already exists in some form so I shall look into […]
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November 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I think you were the one who said that you dont get to commit war crimes bc you think your enemy is mean. There akshully isnt a right for Palestinians to attack israel or its ppl. There is a right to defed againt those attacks and degrade the perp6ability to repeat them.
November 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
One of the joys of defed and the complete failure of the tech space right now is everyone can just scream

“But communities will self moderate” to hide the fact the practice runs are filled with racism ableism and anchronism
November 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Nobody’s gonna check them, even the “good” defed lenses depend on a LOT of free labor and technocratic lack of context

And their setting a precedent for a gotcha
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
It’s like the general excitement about defed … but has no discussion or care for technological gaps both socially, generationally or resource wise … especially at critical junctions
November 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
@charlotte having mastodon.art defed you is practically a queer fedi rite of passage
November 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
need to write a Joining Mastodon guide that shows people how to figure out if it federates with an instance even if its defed list is hidden with specific instructions for seeing if these or any other instances are blocked before they smack that join button
November 7, 2025 at 2:48 AM
need to write a Joining Mastodon guide that shows people how to figure out if it federates with an instance even if its defed list is hidden with specific instructions for seeing if these or any other instances are blocked before they smack that join button
November 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
need to write a Joining Mastodon guide that shows people how to figure out if it federates with an instance even if its defed list is hidden with specific instructions for seeing if these or any other instances are blocked before they smack that join button
November 7, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Defed (defederalise) the sacred. Defend the land. Protect the Peoples. #IndigenousPeoplesDay
October 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
"oh the admin on this instances dislikes this one particular user on this other instance so they defederated from them and any instance that didnt also defed oh ok cool. but theyre also doing nothing to stop an oomf on THIS fed from getting racism. cool."
October 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Enshittification as the model is the problem .

Because it started shitty in such a way that multiple communities called it

And Bluesky used folks telling “they didn’t understand” as a shield

And little about defed or decentralized says they are really considering this
October 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
deFed
October 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
exactly. defed is for illegal content, admin have the ability to only block certain users from the feeds but I've had my instance defederated over being in a blocklist they just import or because they didn't like the domain name 😂 so it makes sense they all come back to bsky
October 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
yeah but Mastodon admin call anything a Nazi, like a user says something homophobic and the whole instance gets nuked 😂 that's why Mastodon is unusable. A defed removes entire hundreds of people from the feed and you end up with only the most sanitized, bland timeline it's like using Facebook.
October 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM