The Federation Has Failed, It's Not a Popularity Contest Which Exposes Oneself to Audiences
RMS in the "Federation":
Notice how little interaction, even with ~6,600 "followers".
"This is the Mastodon account for Richard Stallman," it says.
Earlier this year I argued that "Being in Social Control Media Means Exposing Oneself to Heckling" (RMS being an example of it; I had quit all those sites myself) and earlier this month I said "Being Absent/Missing From Social Control Media is Not a Sign of Weakness".
Those sites are a giant waste of time; even the supposedly 'libre' or 'federated' ones become digital graveyards within months, at most a few years.
Two weeks ago: The Federation? Almost 90% of Its Users Have Quit Participating.
More people need to start sites and write lengthy things, not mindless quips that don't contribute much and can be misinterpreted (e.g. out of context or lacking any context to begin with). For connection with other people use syndication (Atom/RSS). It's vastly better in a lot of ways and it avoids many of the pitfalls Daniel Pocock wrote about earlier this month (central controllers, overlords of communications). █