<story><title>Pleroma 2.0: a free, federated social networking server built on open protocols</title><url>https://pleroma.social/blog/2020/03/08/releasing-pleroma-2-0-0/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Yolta</author><text>It saddens me that every time I see a fediverse-related post on HN, it gets inundated by people who don&amp;#x27;t &amp;quot;get it&amp;quot; and that is to be expected: fediverse is not Twitter and everybody gets Twitter. That change in mentality is not easy.&lt;p&gt;Fun story: massive influx of users from India recently and the timelines got flooded by posts indirectly asking: &amp;quot;what is the way to fame here? How do I get followers?&amp;quot;. Fediverse doesn&amp;#x27;t work like that. You just… talk with others. There&amp;#x27;s no &amp;quot;you and your followers&amp;quot;. There&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;us&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Analogy: you are not in a metropole. You are in a village that is extremely well connected to all other villages. You do not need to shout to be heard.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m on a FOSS-focused instance. We talk all kinds of stuff and FOSS is one of them. I have my Home timeline where I follow all the people I want to hear from (both my instance and all others). I have my Instance timeline where I&amp;#x27;m basically guaranteed to read interesting stuff I can reply to and meet new people who also considered this instance to be their haven. And the Known Fediverse timeline… Well, it&amp;#x27;s fun to browse but come on, imagine a timeline of all tweets on Twitter: mostly useless.&lt;p&gt;Choosing the right instance also involves choosing the right moderators for you. Mods can block other instances. If you don&amp;#x27;t like what the mods do, change instance or start your own community. After all, it&amp;#x27;s not Twitter, the people decide how content is moderated, not a for-profit company.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s the fediverse for ya. Hope to see you there!</text></comment>
<story><title>Pleroma 2.0: a free, federated social networking server built on open protocols</title><url>https://pleroma.social/blog/2020/03/08/releasing-pleroma-2-0-0/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>seemslegit</author><text>Me hearing about the fediverse for the first time:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Man this thing looks really promising, just think of the potential of a social network unhindered by the dark machinations of the googtwitface !&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Me after ten minutes on the public feed of mastodon.social:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;So do the furries post for the sex workers or is it the other way around or what ?&amp;quot;</text></comment>