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.

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

It is a useful tool for getting information out quickly

If the government is lying to you -- you can easily and quickly get a lot of people in the know on what they are lying about.
If you haven't found any "information of value" in the years since short messaging social media has been around, you are definitely in the minority at this point.
Just today, I found 2 scientific papers about the possible origin of covid, 2 neuroscience papers, 35 papers on a promising new covid treatment, learned about the 1880 possible SARS-like russian coronavirus epidemic, the details of people involved with an attempted censorship campaign, communicated with a dozen people I disagree with reducing our scope of disagreement, learned about one of the inventors of BASIC I had never heard of, but who nevertheless influenced my life through her invention, heard of a prominent personality in my country having the cops bust in on his livestream for reasons yet unknown, learned about the statistics of how covid is impacting my local health region (that the government will not release publicly and generally denies), found a couple of funny meme pictures that made me chuckle, found out about someone who i follow who is conducting what's basically gain of function experiments on viruses in their lab, got access to some source code from a program whose source code I don't have access to, found this sobering wikipedia article, and today is a slow day Without access to short messaging systems like the fediverse I would have done other things, of course, with my yesterday...but all of the above was of value