Gregory's Server@atomicpoet @gisiger I'd say that for most, ease of communication is higher priority than decentralization. If the Fediverse continues to scale up, I fully expect that some dominant, but not exclusive, commercial sites that provide an attractive user experience will emerge, just as happened with email. Other instances can respond to that in various ways, but I don't expect that defederating them on principle would work any better than refusing to exchange email with AOL or gmail would have.
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@ZiptieZoe @atomicpoet @gisiger I agree many will, just as a number of people choose indie email services, often for ethical or privacy reasons. Though those email services generally keep exchanging email with the big providers, who serve the majority of email users and are cheaper & easier to use for many than most indie email services. Any instance can of course refuse to federate with any other. But it'll be a very different experience on narrowly federating instances than on broad ones. |
@JMarkOckerbloom @atomicpoet @gisiger
I chose aus.social purely for the ethics of it. I reckon rather a few ppl are keen to only support that which is independent & community-centred