The Last BBS

Posted: **Tue Aug 17, 2021 9:50 pm**

I was trying to explain the Fediverse to Eggs in the chat, and after he left I was talking to my nerd friends on the fedi about how to explain the Fediverse. THEN I remembered the Pleroma FAQ which explains it much better than I did. https://pleroma.social/blog/2021/01/13/ ... verse-faq/

Several of them said to say it's like email, the way hotmail, gmail, yahoo, etc speak the same language. Except everyone can read, reply, re-post, or react with an emoji.

Anyway, I have become obsessed with decentralization of social media. Forums are decentralized, but everyone has abandoned them for Twitter and Facebook. The Fediverse is very much like Twitter, except you make your own rules, no ads, no algorithms, etc.

Posted: **Tue Aug 17, 2021 10:02 pm**

OR you can look at soapbox https://soapbox.pub/install/

I talk to Alex pretty regularly, if you were interested in the fediverse you can join his instance to see how it works https://gleasonator.com/

Posted: **Wed Aug 18, 2021 11:46 am**

Posted: **Wed Aug 18, 2021 1:25 pm**

Don't all these type of things end up taken over by crazy right wingers?

Posted: **Wed Aug 18, 2021 2:38 pm**

No, the crazy right wing ones start out that way. If you start an instance it's like starting your own forum. You make the rules, and decide which other instances to interact with. There are lots of crazy left wing instances, too.