By technical I’m referring mainly to ActivityPub/federation as well as the ability to host your own instances and related details.
Run by us, for us.
It’s not so focused on the US. I live in the US and I’m getting tired of hearing about us.
The inability for America’s unelected president to just buy it for 44 billion…
Artists (Capital ART) are on the fediverse. Things and art I have never seen before.
There are makers that are truly doing things that are super awesome. Building machines/automation that are helping out their lives. You can find these things on the open web as well, but not as “free” (IE locked behind some sort of wall).
I met someone on a pixelfed server that works over at the Monterey Bay Aquarium for example just looking at photos. Its awesome!!
Also it feels like its filled with real people.
The community and thus the people.
I love the idea of online communities that are run by the people and not by massive tech corporations.
The idea that we had a free and open internet back in the day, only to surrender the entire thing to fascist corpo fuckwads like Musk and Zuckerberg, or hostile authoritarian government pawns like ByteDance, is a perfect example of the tragedy of the commons.
The Fediverse feels like our one and only chance to take the internet back on behalf of all people, all over the world.
Doesn’t feel like I’m constantly being sold shit while I’m here
The corporate web feels like a shopping mall, the indie web feels like a flophouse.
Uh, what’s a flophouse?
A cheap, run down, shady motel.
A cheap, flea-ridden (m)hotel, usually.
More generally “cheap housing inhabited by people who are down on their luck”
i was going to say the better curation tools, but then i realized it’s definitely the clients for me, having the freedom to choose exactly how i want my experience to be is so amazing, and clients like photon just trounce stuff like reddit’s ui.
I switched over when I saw Zuckerberg and company at Trump’s inauguration. I’m Canadian and had been mostly trying to ignore the shitshow going on next door. I didn’t know they were all supporters. No fucking way do i want anything to do with anything those fucks are offering. So the fact that I can still enjoy content and be connected to the world without making them more money is very appealing to me.
It took about a week to get through Facebook withdrawals because of the friends and family I had on there but it feels so good now without all the ads and bots. I made a last post before I checked out, explaining why I was going and inviting everyone to do the same.
It’s the most organic way of socializing
The fediverse is ran by volunteers. Engagement is organic and isn’t trying to sell you something. Everything you see is there because someone thought it was worth sharing
Much less bots and reposts. I feel like there’s less content, but it’s more real than I what I experienced on Reddit for example
75 procent of X posts are fake and generated by bots. You kinda see the same happening with YouTube and Facebook as well. I rather have less context but higher quality comments, posts and threads.
I see the same names appearing over and over again in different communities. This is, of course, because this is still a relatively small space, but it’s something that has the potential to remain true even as things grow, because we don’t all need to be in the same politics community, or in the same gaming community, etc.
There’s more active moderation.
Tan Eggs.
the @instance helps remember names, id just ignore names in reddit, adds or detracts credibility
Public modlog is nice and seems to be a good selling point to people.
It’s small enough that I can post a comment on something, and my girlfriend will independently run across my comment. Though she doesn’t read the usernames, so she doesn’t know it was me. Then I’ll mention it and she’ll say “oh yeah, I saw that comment.”
