Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network

Re:Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network by exitb on Friday March 10, 2023 @08:35AM (#35094138)

That's roughly how Mastodon works. Each instance is responsible for moderation of their own users. If an instance does not meet arbitrary standards of moderation, other instances may choose not to federate with them, but nothing can stop willing instances from federating.

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Re:Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network by Zardoz84 on Friday March 10, 2023 @08:44AM (#35094222)

And allow us to kick out any fascist guy and/or instance from the federated network.

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Re:Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network by thr717272 on Friday March 10, 2023 @10:19AM (#35095404)

Problem is people have no idea what Facism and Nazism is.

You find people here in the west who hate Jews claiming to be anti-facists and people starting a massive invasion of a central European country - all while repeating much of Hitlers playbook - while claiming they do it to crush the "Nazis" there.

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Re:Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network by thr717272 on Friday March 10, 2023 @10:15AM (#35095352)

One problem: as far as I understand a number of high profile instances enforced a rule where they would block any instance that didn't block certain other instances.

I'm all for blocking a good number of instances myself, but putting limits on others, that is a whole different thing.

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Re:Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network by 8note on Friday March 10, 2023 @02:00PM (#35099254)

That sounds like US secondary sanctions.

A working system when your community is popular to deal with

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Re:Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network by thr717272 on Saturday March 11, 2023 @04:18AM (#35106779)

It is understandable when it deals with Iran, a terrorist organization sitting on top of an oil field, terrorizing large parts of the Middle East (note that nowhere do I criticize the overthrowing of the old regime, I just criticize what they themselves is/became).

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Re:Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network by RobotToaster on Friday March 10, 2023 @11:08AM (#35096221)

Unfortunately that's ended up with a netsplit between covenanted and free servers, some servers will even de-federate you for federating with the "wrong" servers. So the only way to access the whole fediverse is either have multiple accounts, or run your own server.

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Re:Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network by JohnFen on Friday March 10, 2023 @11:30AM (#35096602)

I don't think I consider that a bad thing.

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Re:Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network by exitb on Friday March 10, 2023 @11:26AM (#35096533)

This is not a technical problem, but a societal one.

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Re:Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network by giantrobot on Friday March 10, 2023 @01:12PM (#35098465)

You say all that like it's a problem. If I run a gay furry porn instance, like wall to wall kitsune dicks, why should anyone federate with me? If you want fox dicks you come to my server. If you don't you avoid my server.

You shouldn't have to see a bunch of raunchy furry gifs at work to decide you don't want to see those and block me manually. Federation should be a totally voluntary thing between servers. Only instances with compatible policies should federate.

Accessing the whole fediverse should only ever be a client problem in logging into multiple instances. Instances shouldn't be expected to just federate with everyone.

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