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Phantasm@phnt@fluffytail.org (2026-06-10 05:41:48)
@jupiter_rowland @sendpaws Not to mention that limiting social interactions on a social media network is kinda sad. There are better ways to filter posts you don't like seeing in your notifs than breaking federation and/or making social media less social.
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Pawlicker@sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party (2026-06-10 05:44:26)
@phnt @jupiter_rowland Making social media less social is one huge reason why it's so shit nowadays.

It's also funny to see how people who do that end up complaining about how lonely they are before nuking their account. You just cut off all interactions, no wonder people aren't talking to you.
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Jupiter Rowland@jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu (2026-06-10 06:52:11)
@Pawlicker @Phantasm Not the whole Fediverse is social media.

Social media is all about unidirectional followers and churning out content to as many people as possible. Mastodon is social media. It's modelled after Twitter which is social media. So are basically all other microblogging server applications in the Fediverse.

In stark contrast, Hubzilla, as well as its ancestors and descendants, is not social media. It is not modelled after Twitter. It is not nomadic Mastodon with unlimited characters. It doesn't even have unidirectional following. Intentionally in all cases. Also, something that has been around for longer than Mastodon can't be modelled after Mastodon.

Rather, at its core, it's modelled after the Facebook of the 2010s. The Facebook of the 2010s was not social media. It was a social network, dedicated to bidirectional interactions between people. To this day, Facebook doesn't have unidirectional following. Instead, it has "friends" which are always bidirectional.

Likewise, Hubzilla has bidirectional "contacts" as a default. Mind you, these are nothing like your usual Fediverse microblogging mutuals. They aren't one following connection plus one being-followed connection. They're one and exactly one connection which goes both ways.

Also, unlike most other Fediverse software, Hubzilla is extremely flexible in its use-cases. Unlike on most other Fediverse server applications, Hubzilla isn't hard-coded to always be public unless it's a DM which still is quasi-public. It can very much be used for enclosed communities as well, protected by a staggeringly advanced permissions system.

Let me put it this way: BlackMastodon was a disaster. Why? Because Mastodon has nothing much between fully public and mention-driven DMs, and its only ways of self-moderation are muting, blocking and calling the mods.

BlackZilla would have been a success (unless phone apps with native mobile UIs would have been a hard requirement). It would have allowed for discussions wit