JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoIs Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on?ploum.netexternal-linkmessage-square98linkfedilinkarrow-up170arrow-down147cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up123arrow-down1external-linkIs Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on?ploum.netJensSpahnpasta@feddit.org to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square98linkfedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareRaphael@communick.newslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down3·3 months ago You only heard the term in context of centralized big social media so you think the term has bad connotation Please, don’t assume things about the people on the other side of a debate. It’s condescending and it robs us all of learning. I’m not saying that we don’t need platforms because of “bad connotation”. I’m saying it because I have worked on a “social browser” for the fediverse, an application server for using activitypub as a transport mechanism and I know that we can develop an open social web that does not rely on server-centric applications.
Please, don’t assume things about the people on the other side of a debate. It’s condescending and it robs us all of learning.
I’m not saying that we don’t need platforms because of “bad connotation”. I’m saying it because I have worked on a “social browser” for the fediverse, an application server for using activitypub as a transport mechanism and I know that we can develop an open social web that does not rely on server-centric applications.