Double standards, fearmongering and more hate mongering While for them controllable bots, or bots that don’t use the full potential of the API from the instances, such as FediDB from Pixelfed developer Dansup seem to be fine for them, other databases that store a little more public data fetched from the API, such as ryona.agency’s FBA, are directly labeled as scrapers and illegal data processing. The fact that the use of APIs is absolutely not scraping demonstrates the lack of knowledge about how the internet works on the part of those who call themselves “guardians of the Fediverse”.

Dataprivacy & Law In contrast to what many instances, mainly Mastodon, advertise, data protection is not even present in Fediverse. The important thing is to know how the software you use is working, and that’s precisely what most wannabe administrators don’t know. Once the “cache” fills up on their Server because Mastodon has downloaded all the images and stored them on their own server so that Mastodon does not have to retrieve them from the other instance every time, these noobs start crying that their instance is consuming 400 GB to 1 TB space on their hard drive.

The “social” in Fediverse The fact that the Fediverse as a “social” medium is not much better, sometimes even worse, than Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), Threads, etc. should already have become clear in the first part of this series of contributions. Especially with German-language instances and their connections, such as through a Matrix channel, black/white thinking and extremist, populist framing by the political left becomes clearly visible. Here, for example, a group with the name Fedimins seems to have come together, in which insults are also used in the Matrix channel and framing to direct the group into the same mendacity machinery as is already known from hatemongers like Fediblock, which is known to be controlled by hate preachers and defamers like Welshpixie in a dedicated Discord channel for this purpose.

In General The way things are currently going on at the Fediverse, or Mastoverse, there will be no future for the ActivityPub protocol. Why? Quite simply, in bullet points: Misuse of mental health disorders for manipulation Centralized, public blocklists Are mainly used to spread lies Are used to exert force on instances Are used to exclude other opinions (censorship) Public denunciation of other opinions Forcing own opinion, mainly from the political left Arbitrary instance blocking due to personal differences of opinions of individual administrators Instance-wide blocking prevents up to several thousand people who have nothing to do with the administrator’s personal witch hunt or even want to have any interaction with the administrator’s victims.

Most toxic Fediverse instances - Top 20 mastodon.art Abuse score: 2696 Software: Mastodon Known for: Ableism, Abuse of power, Abuse of reach, Alt-Fedi bullshit, Arrogance, Ass kissing with known bullies, Bigotry, Blacklist compiling, Blackmailing, Brigading, Bullying, CP, Cancel culture, Censorship advocate, Channers, Coercion, Criminal activity, Delusional, Despotism, Disinformation, Dogpiling, Double standards, Doxxing, Fearmongering, Framing, Gaslighting, Grooming, Harassment, Hate-Speech, Hateful Conduct, Hostile, Hosting hostile accounts, Hypocrisy, Identity theft, Invalid DMCA URL, Invalid Privacy Policy, Invalid TOS, Logophobia, Money begging, Narcissism, No Privacy, No data privacy, Poor moderation, Scam, Sectarianism, Shitposting, Slander, Spreading falsehood, Stalking, Undifferentiated hatred, Unmarkted NSFW, Victim blaming, Witch hunting, Zoophilia, Suicide-baiting, Running DDoS attacks

Jetzt, wo man mir auch noch Bigotterie vorwirft, ist für mich die Zeit gekommen, all meine Dienste vollständig einzustellen und die Server nur noch für den Eigengebrauch zu nutzen, anstelle weiter Ressourcen in das Netzwerk hineinzustecken, wo sich Hass-Erfüllte Spinner, wie z.B. welshpixie oder rysiek, breit gemacht haben und jedem die Freude an dem einst freundlichen Miteinander dermaßen Madig machen, indem sie es zu einem zweiten Twitter gemacht haben. Besonders beteiligt an der Twitterfizierung vom Fediverse sind Mastodon und Instanzen wie mastodon.