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I would strongly disagree regarding the shared core goals. #ActivitPub undergirds Gab, TruthSocial, Threads, and those are just a small number of the forks/feature-comparable Mastodon-like platforms. They share almost none of the goals, but are opportunistic and support reusing infrastructure others build & maintain for their own purposes, w/o contributing upstream. 4 comments
@david_megginson No, they are here. Your toots are likely visible there. Only your instance’s #administrators and #moderators are protecting you from the worst things they are doing. I hope you are kind to and thank your #admin / #mods often. It reminds me, I have not done so recently enough.  @amgine wrote > I hope you are kind to and thank your #admin / #mods often. I do, and I send a monthly donation to my social-media site equal to the cost of a Netflix subscription. > Only your instance’s #administrators and #moderators are protecting you from the worst things they are doing. Yes, it's true that my posts are public and that each site can choose who to federate with, but I do believe there's a core consensus — going beyond protocols — that excludes the worst actors. I definitely agree there is a consensus that instances can decide with whom they directly federate, and users should have control of their feeds, communities should have guidance on who may be a member, and decide what appropriate behaviour is for their community. But there is no consensus I am aware of on what constitutes bad actions or who is a bad actor. |
Gregory's Server
@amgine Agreed, and I wouldn't count those as part of the fediverse, just parallel social networks that happen to use some of the same architecture or standards.