The next big victim of hate and agitation is, how could it have been anything else, Bluesky. So I’m not surprised to hear that Jack Dorsey, the founder of Bluesky, has turned his back on his own project and returned to X. Double standards, fearmongering and more hate mongering Bluesky, at least within the German-speaking region, is mainly dominated by radicalized left-wingers who are furious about anything and everything that is not directly up their asses.

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.