hate to break it to you but /. does all of those things. maybe not as effectively as tiktok but still

With Threads we're now pushing a hundred million users. As big as twitter during arab spring.

Delete your slashdot account and put your phone down and never pick it up.

The real world includes the world of human social interaction, and that has always been mediated as long as we've been communicating with groups outside of our little hamlets and demes

wrote up a comment but it was deleted. tl;dr free speech exists on the fediverse, and if you choose to value it you can have it. whether or not the fediverse is "about" free speech is almost irrelevant. The parts of the fediverse that have free speech are "about" it and there will be those of us who connect the rest of the network to freedom whether or not the prudes and the censors want to try to wall themselves off.

'Multi-server but all under control by an unaccountable central point of failure' you mean

Search is way easier in centralized systems, obviously.
As far as algorithmic filtering of content, you can do that already on the fediverse, you just have to do it manually on your own database of posts. The UI isn't quite there yet on servers like pleroma, but it will get there if it's seen to be a useful feature.

good thing disney's priorities is making their service more defective by design, and harder to use for their paying customers and not fixing their buggy-AF UI or producing more content

it makes it easier to compete with them and an easier sell for a cartoon producing entity to replace them

Since you can't distribute modified versions, this is effectively locked within microsoft's walled garden, just like winamp always was. It should be considered a dead project, since no one should be touching github in the first place.

Did you submit these as bug reports to the audacious/other projects?

Still is. The pandemic hasn't ended.

But time was when you could buy a television and it would keep receiving television pictures for 60, 70 years. These days you buy a stick to put in your TV and it stops working before your kid reaches middle school.

You're right: different parts of the fediverse are broken in different ways. You might notice, though that if you avoid instances behind the rainbow curtain (such as plush.city) that there's less of this sort of thing

It's a lot easier than moving from twitter to any alternatives, that's for sure. Some instances have migration functionality, but it's generally janky. It's FLOSS though so if this functionality is important to you...you can build it. Whereas if this functionality were important to you there is virtually nothing you can do to get it put into twitter.

Of course - there's a benefit to the broader tool that an identity rich, central point of coordination that twitter offers

you're right that there's something inherent in twitter that *is* better than raw RSS that's what the fediverse gives

in your analogy: RSS would be horses, the automobile system(complete with the big auto companies) would be twitter, and the fediverse would be a network of 3d printable flying cars

Most twitter-alternative fediverse servers are. Are you using one of them?

The fediverse is not like that at all. Social media between people is alive and well there. ie the interesting people are still out there, but they have been mostly kicked off of twitter

Twitter didn't replace RSS -- RSS still exists and on the fediverse many servers offer RSS feeds by default

but there is interesting stuff on twitter
it competes with RSS feeds for your computers polling time but doesn't and shouldn't replace it fully