The idea is that in the near future or even present...

The idea is that in the near future or even present day of the Fediverse, we'll see groups of servers, moderators, and communities working together to define the boundaries that they want & accept.

e.g., FediPact could be considered a "bloc" of server's who all agree not to federate with Meta, that'd be an example of such.

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Like 10 January at 19:48 | Open on hachyderm.io

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Emelia 👸🏻

You could maybe also consider the Mastodon Server Covenant as being a "bloc" of servers

e.g., they could publish a federation "accept list" of all the servers that have agreed to it, and have a process for appeals or challenges, and then you could subscribe to that and only accept instances that agree with the covenant's terms.

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10 January at 19:50 | Open on hachyderm.io

Emelia 👸🏻

For me, "coalition" felt a little weird because it implies to me a political power, where as I'd say "bloc" invokes trading power which is perhaps closer to what we're doing: trading Activity's between different ActivityPub servers. "union" could work too.

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10 January at 19:52 | Open on hachyderm.io

Raccoon at TechHub for Harris

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I think running a server is political power: we are basically like the despots of little virtual nations of people. We make these sort of diplomatic decisions with each other, across boundaries, and while people can move between servers if they have an issue with how the one they're on is being governed, larger servers still have an advantage in that a block of or from us can cut smaller servers off from thousands of people.

We form coalitions, like FediPact, TBS, etc, when we have a larger goal that we want to achieve and a general methodology of how we want to achieve it. The biggest example might be FediBlock. Not everyone has to agree with those coalitions, not every coalition is going to be good, but I think that's a good word for it.

That said, I would really like for us to talk more between servers, as staff. I feel like that should be a bigger part of our culture, perhaps even built into the software itself.

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10 January at 20:01 | Open on techhub.social