Oh boy. I am so sorry!

It's a screenshot from my view of the post. It says "a social.beaware.live user walks into a bar. the bartender says This is a personal instance ran by BeAware"

The post above is a bit of a programming trick that changes based on who is viewing the post. They are not calling you out directly.

Again, my apologies for not including alt text. I am editing the post now!

My immediate response was to laugh. But I do see how it can be an issue. However, I think that instances would need to self-moderate these sorts of things.🤷‍♂️

🤣programming has fooled you.

I think communication on a mass scale is needed in times like these where news organizations lie and have their own agendas.

I have no idea. I'd say probably not.🤷‍♂️

It's SUCH a good show. Any fans of Fallout that hasn't seen it yet, I HIGHLY recommend! Never seen such a good TV/Video Game transition before.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@hollywoodreporter/112633264385048792

#Fallout #Gaming #PCgaming #VideoGames #Games

no worries.👍 Hope it is successful. There are some glitches and bugs but Ryan has been working pretty quickly with his contributors to squash them.

you can "group recent boosts" from the preferences > other menu.

obviously this is MUCH in contrast to Threads integration which is funded by a billion dollar company, and as such, I mimic your opinions on that.🤣🤦‍♂️

well, to be fair, the BlueSky bridge is made and funded by a single person with only a few helpful contributors.

However, when the bridge was first announced, he got MASSIVE backlash for using the term "opt-out" which is just how the Fediverse works. You didn't have to opt-in to get this reply, for example. Due to the backlash, he requires an account to be followed on each side before the interactions will propagate on both ends. Did you follow the Bridgy account from your BlueSky account? The documents say:

"To bridge your Bluesky account into the fediverse and interact with people there, follow @ap.brid.gy on Bluesky."

So be sure to do that first, then any future interactions SHOULD come through. Though it's VERY early and he's still working on fixing and refining things.👍

no, nor do I care. I am not one of those who thinks this place is private.

I've been one of the ones who realize this is public and wants it to stay that way. Therefore I am trying to inform the ones that are less informed, so they can go elsewhere, preferably a place that's more private so they aren't disappointed again.

Again, you're preaching to the choir.🤣🤣

https://social.beaware.live/@BeAware/112620270642222978

https://social.beaware.live/@BeAware/112620242011974816

https://social.beaware.live/@BeAware/112609848729400731

https://social.beaware.live/@BeAware/112604915216381275

Do us all a favor, don't argue in bad faith.

If you're debating something and the person you're debating with has a genuine question, answer the damn question.

If you just say "do your own research", you immediately lose the debate because someone cannot debate something they don't know about. If you don't give an answer, the other person will assume you don't know and will move on.

but you're here and there's currently no better option unless you want to go to Nostr. However, there's only 15,000 people on Nostr and VERY little engagement.

You DO have data protection, you just don't use it. "Followers only" posts aren't able to be scraped or seen publicly.🤷 People just refuse to not post with a "public" setting.

I do have to ask, if you go out in "public", aka in the middle of the street, do you expect any privacy? The same can be said here....

So, after spending about 2 months on Nostr, I've decided to leave my account dormant there and come back to Fediverse as my "one true platform".

Let's do a postmortem.

What is Nostr?

Nostr is a protocol, much like ActivityPub or ATProto, but tries to solve problems that these platforms haven't.

The major difference is, your account is yours. There are "relays" there that are similar to instances here. However, unlike here, the relays don't always have a website attached and they don't "host" your account exclusively. Each relay you are a part of, has a copy of your profile and if you get "banned" from a relay, you just remove that relay from your connection and keep posting like normal.

There's many different things that Nostr can do, like micro logging, chat, streaming, communities similar to reddit, etc.

One of the other big features is that you can pay creators directly with the use of Bitcoin Lightning which I thought is a pretty neat idea. Though, with the amount of scammers in the crypto space, nobody wants to touch it anymore.

All of these things seemed good to me and I enjoyed engaging with the different systems. My issue, however, isn't with how the protocol is built, it's with the low engagement numbers.

Over my 2 months there, I've gained about 65 followers. Compared to Fediverse, that's REALLY low. Especially considering that there's only about 10% of followers that will engage with any post.

I'd even tried making exclusive Nostr themed content AND giving away Bitcoin Lightning (free money, anyone?) and only got a handful of interactions on each post.

It's good technology if you don't mind having to block stuff you don't want to see consistently. (Which I don't mind) But if the regular user doesn't get much out of the platform, they have no reason to put into the platform and that's pretty much where I'm at.

Fediverse continues to be the best social media platform for engagement. There are censorship issues here. (If you're banned by the biggest instances, you're pretty screwed) However, I don't have those problems.🤷

It was a good experiment nonetheless.

#Fediverse #Nostr #SocialMedia #ATproto #ActivityPub

because each instance is in control of their own destiny and every person can start their own instance for cheap.

Why do you feel it would be a curse, is a better question?🤔😳

oh hurray! The community will have to do the things creators are supposed to be doing! Doesn't that sound fun?!?!😳

If you want to shout into the void, please do us all a favor and go back to Twitter. If nobody ever replied to anything, I'd bet most people wouldn't be here...🤦

RE: https://octodon.social/@BustaMarx/112632617790394843

#Fediverse #Fedi #Mastodon

sure, if by "free tv" they mean shows that air on cable normally, but now free, then yes. If they mean new, lower budget crap that nobody has ever heard of, then no, absolutely not, fuck no....🤦

well that sucks. I hope you don't get too hungry.

on your home page? Those arent filtered because they're not a "public timeline"