I am writing a research paper about #fediverse . I am almost at the deadline and I would greatly appreciate if you could comment down
• the difficulties you faced in the fediverse
• challenges faced by the fediverse in attracting users and retain them
• your experience in fediverse
• feedbacks about fediverse
• your suggestions to improve
• setbacks of fediverse and anything related to fediverse.
[Update] I created a form to submit your responses
I would greatly appreciate if anyone could participate in the survey I created for my research about #fediverse . it won’t take much time and it is hosted on privacy friendly service #cryptpad . all responses are anonymized. You don’t have to answer all questions. Fill as much you can and submit when you had enough. The survey link : https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/LyJcsEgXPzaWJtwXXsGq4uoGwK6C+VzujXC6Wrz3YqI/
Here’s my experience on the fediverse: https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/554307/Just-wanted-a-warning-Lemmy-World-is-perhaps-worse-than-reddit
If you are trying to access it like me now, you might get an Error 50x, but no matter since I can resume it with far more reliable Internet WayBack Machine links.
With my user InternetTubes@lemmy.world, I made the last comment you see here: https://web.archive.org/web/20231020022523/https://kbin.social/u/@InternetTubes@lemmy.world inside a thread that still ends with “mods and users may express their questions, concerns, requests and issues regarding the Terms of Service, and content moderation in Lemmy.World. We hope to discuss and inform constructively and in good faith.”
As a result, one of the admins purged and banned my account, removing months of comments and participation, not to mention any credibility I would have when pointing out the claims had I not been able to store them in IWB: https://web.archive.org/web/20231019235547/https://lemmy.world/modlog
The most recent lemmy.world modlog has even been purged of all mentions of it: https://web.archive.org/web/20231021224842/https://lemmy.world/modlog (Search for HEISENBERG and search back up to see the huge gap). The way they acted with my account gives me the impressions that claims from other users who say they were moderators with them are true: https://lemmy.ml/comment/5060380
I’ve submitted a ticket, whose link leads to a service hosted on mastodon.world, and have received no reply: https://imgur.com/a/aisRzL9
My suggestions:
There needs to be remediation and resilience against bad faith moderation and instances within the fediverse system, otherwise there will be people who take advantage of it. My original comment has criticisms regarding permanent bans as well.
The fediverse could benefit from having a way to migrate accounts if you run into problems with an instance that wouldn’t be considered a problem in another instance, to safeguard your submission history.
Modlogs are good but worthless when they can be manipulated, and the fediverse might do well to consider ways to implement decentralized tracking of them to monitor attempts to alter them.
Well that’s rather concerning. I’m curious to hear your side of the story, feel free to pm me if you wish
That is my experience, https://kbin.social/m/general@burggit.moe/t/667921/Just-wanted-a-warning-Lemmy-World-is-perhaps-worse-than-reddit
There is hardly any other side to it when it includes the message that prompted the ban and purge, it has as much independent evidence as I’ve been able to provide. I doubt “my side” can be considered whether my claims took place or not, given that they are so largely indisputable due to web.archive, but I can understand if people have different takes about that says about the sort of admins that would do allow it and handle it as they have.
I don’t use my account that much anymore since that can of worms, so sorry if I don’t respond to it in a while.
Yeah. I’ve seen incidents like this before. These references will be very helpful. Thank you very much.
too many fucking liberals
even as an enjoyer of hexbear colliding with libshits and showing them what’s up, it gets tiring sharing a virtual space with liberals sometimes
I did the survey but please would you mind identifying yourself and linking to the research paper when it’s ready?
the difficulties you faced in the fediverse
Some networks are a bit confusing, like Misskey and Firefish. On Lemmy sometimes things don’t federate as you’d expect them, like Mastodon <-> Lemmy. Even between different Lemmy instances sometimes things don’t federate, so people on different instances will see different things on the same post. Not hard to get used to, overall, but it’s there.
challenges faced by the fediverse in attracting users and retain them
I’m not really inside that part of the fediverse. I enjoy Lemmy, and check Mastodon ocasionally. I guess an issue is that the people I follow on centralized social media aren’t really on fediverse. Also, I think videos are a big issue. Video-based content is huge on the internet, but the fediverse video-sharing platforms just aren’t very good.
your experience in fediverse
I’ve been having tons of fun. Lots of fun conversations and interesting topics to explore. Definitely positive.
feedbacks about fediverse
As I mentioned before I think video-based stuff really needs to improve. Some connectivity/federation issues also need to be ironed out. I also think chatroom style social-media would be great on the fediverse. Lemmy does that a little bit with the Chat comments, but it’s not the same thing. I’m thinking something like Discord. Matrix can be federated I think, it does run AP, but it’s not in practice AFAIK.
your suggestions to improve fediverse
Basically what I said above: focus on video content more and effective chatrooms.
setbacks of fediverse and anything related to fediverse.
Not sure what this means? Setbacks? I guess dumbasses talking shit online is an issue? A lot of people hear “fediverse, activitypub, blah blah blah” and decide it’s “not for them”. I guess it’s hard to make people see the value of decentralized social media. And it’s definitely difficult to make people let go of their virtual lives on other social media for something that’s still a bit buggy and not used by a lot of people. Well there’s a lot of people on the fediverse but a lot (A LOT) less than on other social media platforms.
