Even though millions of people left Twitter in 2023 – and millions more are ready to move as soon as there’s a viable alternative – the fediverse isn’t growing.1 One reason why: today’s fediverse is unsafe by design and unsafe by default – especially for Black and Indigenous people, women of color, LGBTAIQ2S+ people2, Muslims, disabled people and other marginalized communities. ‌

  • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.comEnglish
    171·
    1 year ago

    The exact opposite is true. I am part of a very small minority and I made my own fediverse instances. Everyone who tries to go ableist/racist/misogynist or whathaveyou gets the boot. Very easy solution indeed.

    The issue right now is how hard it is to set up an instance. In my opinion, every router on the world should have instances running (and tunneled to not dox themselves) so people are not dependent on big instances.

    I would downvote this since it’s misleading af but it also sparks debate so I‘ll refrain.

    • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      In my opinion, every router on the world should have instances running (and tunneled to not dox themselves) so people are not dependent on big instances.

      That would be a security and moderation nightmare. Moderating an instance is a tough job, and not everybody wants to take on that job.

      • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.comEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        That could be a moderation and security nightmare. But so could everything else you do.

        Running a demilitarized zone to host lemmy for example does nothing for your home network since it is cut off from it. The important part is having automatic updates and smart interface to make configuration easy. I‘m not saying everyone should be doing it, I‘m saying everyone should be able to.

        Moderation is no problem either. If only people in your home network are allowed to register, you have only them to police. And stuff from outside gets reported to one or multiple mods and deleted/blocked/defederated. Problem solved.

        I don’t see a problem at all. Its still ways off atm but I can see it working.

        • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          If only people in your home network are allowed to register

          Well, that’s one critical detail you didn’t specify. But, that still doesn’t account for the need for software updates, and hacking attempts. Also, why would anybody subscribe a community on a Lemmy instance with almost nobody on it?

    • The Nexus of Privacy@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      As I say in the article:

      Despite these problems, many people on well-moderated instances have very positive experiences in today’s fediverse. Especially for small-to-medium-size instances, for experienced moderators even Mastodon’s tools can be good enough.

      However, many instances aren’t well-moderated. So many people have very negative experiences in today’s fediverse.

    • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
      11·
      1 year ago

      i think this will happen. the fediverse software field is literally in its infancy. i cant believe people are complaining rigfht now when so many products havent even reached 1.0, but are getting close.

      and seeing these products from the inside, these are not products that are impossible to one-click install for non-tech folks… its going to happen.

      you will absolutely see 3rd parties spin up services to auto-deploy a functioning fediverse server much the way a wordpress site is created. but its not now… maybe soon.