Re:Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network
by RobotToaster on Friday March 10, 2023 @11:08AM
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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
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I don't think I consider that a bad thing.
Re:Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network
by exitb on Friday March 10, 2023 @11:26AM
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This is not a technical problem, but a societal one.
Re:Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network
by giantrobot on Friday March 10, 2023 @01:12PM
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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.