Post AWy0sJym7rJb5n3aM4 by futureisfoss@fosstodon.org
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(DIR) Post #AWy0sICWjl7vZrTXVo by futureisfoss@fosstodon.org
2023-06-19T18:33:05Z
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I don't think it was a good idea for instance admins to agree to talk to Meta under a nondisclosure agreement, but that DOESN'T make it an excuse for people to go and harass those admins. If anything they're the victims of Meta IMO, and a lot of them may still be in favor of blocking Meta regardless of whether they agreed to the meeting or not. I think we have to stick together in situations like this and act accordingly, keep in mind that "divide and conquer" is a proven strategy.
(DIR) Post #AWy0sJ09lEpG3mhArw by paramdeo@fosstodon.org
2023-06-19T22:05:15Z
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@futureisfoss And yet this is an example of the greatest flaw of Federation: in that defederation is tantamount to censorship by any other name.Decentralization is the ideal: where the user chooses what to view or block, not a gatekeeping admin making that choice for them.The Fediverse is feudal at its core, and I'm not sure how evenly this problem is spread between ActivityPub (the protocol) and instance admins (the people).Protocols > People? People > Protocols? I choose the former.
(DIR) Post #AWy0sJym7rJb5n3aM4 by futureisfoss@fosstodon.org
2023-06-19T18:43:10Z
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Its also important to acknowledge that Fediverse has the same kind of design flaws that made it possible for Google to take over the email ecosystem with their Gmail service, @aral has written a blog post that explains this problem very well - https://ar.al/2022/11/09/is-the-fediverse-about-to-get-fryed-or-why-every-toot-is-also-a-potential-denial-of-service-attack/So the way to move forward would be to create a system which doesn't have these flaws, and the only way to do that is to somehow get rid of the power difference between the one who can run servers and the one who can't.