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The highly xenophobic "Fediverse equals Mastodon" sect and the Friendica-centred resistance against it

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How a small bunch of German-speaking non-Mastodon Fediverse users is fighting back against the spreading sectarian belief that the Fediverse is or at least should be only Mastodon
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"Chirper": A perfect Twitter clone in the Fediverse for those on 𝕏 afraid of the Fediverse

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The key to getting more 𝕏 users to join the Fediverse is to give them a super-faithful Twitter clone in the Fediverse of which they don't even notice that it isn't another silo
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The Fediverse has social networking apps, but Mastodon isn't one

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If you approach the Fediverse as a social network, it has places with much better onboarding than Mastodon because Mastodon isn't a social network after all
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Avatars are always digital twins? How about no?

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Surprising revelation: Virtual world users don't necessarily want their avatar to be their digital self. In fact, they don't necessarily only want to have one avatar.
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"Nothing About Us Without Us", only it still is without them most of the time

 last edited: Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:37:01 +0200
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When disabled Fediverse users demand participation in accessibility discussions, but there are no discussions in the first place, and they themselves don't even seem to be available to give accessibility feedback
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AI superiority at describing images, not so alleged?

 last edited: Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:36:38 +0200
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Could it be that AI can image-describe circles even around me? And that the only ones whom my image descriptions satisfy are Mastodon's alt-text police?
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The teleport between virtual world systems (that actually never happened)

 last edited: Sat, 14 Sep 2024 14:58:49 +0200
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How Linden Lab managed to fool almost everyone with a spectacular tech stunt in 2008
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Mike Macgirvin stopped maintaining the streams repository

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August 31st: Mike Macgirvin has resigned from maintaining the streams repository and let the community take over
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PBR and the shitstorm against the new Firestorm

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How the new version of the Firestorm viewer with support for Physically-Based Rendering enrages its users
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Things that'll happen at OpenSim parties

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If you're a frequent partygoer in OpenSim, you're likely to know at least some of these
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