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<subtitle>Joners FOSS self-hosting space</subtitle>
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<title>Sharkey</title>
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<published>2025-02-13T00:00:00+00:00</published>
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<updated>2025-02-13T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
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<name>
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Joners
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<content type="html" xml:base="https://jone.rs/en/services/sharkey/"><blockquote class="note">
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<p class="alert-title">
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<i class="icon"></i>Note</p>
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<p><a href="https://social.jone.rs">Zur Instanz</a></p>
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<h1 id="the-fediverse-and-microblogging-with-sharkey">The Fediverse and microblogging with Sharkey</h1>
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<p>Elon Musk with X (Twitter).
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Mark Zuckerberg with Facebook, Instagram and Threads.
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Zhang Yiming with Tiktok. What do they all have in common?
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All three people are filthy rich and some of them hold very anti-democratic positions.
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That makes them very dangerous as very influential people.
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In addition, the platforms come from countries that I am critical of because of their politics and political developments and their understanding of data protection.
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These platforms are all centralized platforms.</p>
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<h2 id="the-problem-with-centralized-platforms">The problem with centralized platforms</h2>
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<p>These few large platforms have vast amounts of data and represent data monopolies.
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It is often not known exactly how personal data is used, stored or passed on.
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They also have control over users’ data and content. (No) rules and guidelines lead to censorship and content controls or the flooding of (right-wing) conspiracy myths and fake news and can become a gateway for disinformation campaigns.</p>
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<p>On top of this, all platforms use algorithms to curate and display content.
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This contributes to ‘filter bubbles’ and can limit the diversity of opinions and information.
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At worst, people remain trapped in their existing beliefs.</p>
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<p>The use of centralized platforms leads to a very strong dependency on one provider.
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One consequence of this is that people stay on platforms even though they (now) demonize them or switch providers.
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However, this does not change the problem of dependency if you switch from X to Threads and then to Bluesky.</p>
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<p>The Fediverse can provide a counterbalance to centralization.</p>
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<h2 id="what-is-the-fediverse">What is the Fediverse?</h2>
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<p>The Fediverse is a large number of decentralized social networks that are connected to each other via open protocols.
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This allows users to create, share and interact with content without having to rely on a central authority.
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Some well-known offshoots of this are Mastodon, Pixelfed and PeerTube.
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The ActivityPub has established itself in the Fediverse. If it is successfully integrated, it doesn’t matter which offshoot you use to consume content from other users who use other offshoots.
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Decentralization means that users control their own data and adapt the platforms to their own needs.</p>
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<h2 id="why-sharkey">Why Sharkey</h2>
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<p>Sharkey is a bit of a better Mastodon.
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It’s also a microblogging platform based in the Fediverse, aimed at users who want to share short messages, thoughts and updates.</p>
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<p>It is more powerful than Mastodon and yet more beginner-friendly than Mastodon due to the very nice onboarding process available.
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Sharkey offers multiple themes and it is easier to track topics through the Antenna feature.
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Further highlights can be found in the <a href="https://activitypub.software/TransFem-org/Sharkey">ReadMe</a> of the project.</p>
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<entry xml:lang="en">
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<title>My first post</title>
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<published>2025-02-01T00:00:00+00:00</published>
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<updated>2025-02-01T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
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<author>
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<name>
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Joners
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<content type="html" xml:base="https://jone.rs/en/blog/first-post/"><p>Heyho dear people. I will use this site mainly to link my service and other cool projects from other people. It’s mainly a collection point. So it’s hard to say if and how regularly blog posts will appear here. But if I want to get something off my chest and a social media post is not enough, then it will be posted here. Until then, feel free to look around here.</p>
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