Everywhere I look there are people advocating for defederation from this and that! Do you even understand what you’re suggesting? Do you get what’s the point of decentralized social media and activity pub?
This is supposed to be free and accessible for everyone. We all have brains and can decide who to interact with.
If meta or any other company manages to create a better product it’s just natural that people tend to use it. I won’t use it, you may not use it and it’s totally fine! It’s about having options. Also as Mastodon’s CEO pointed out there’s no privacy concern, everything stays on your instance.
This might be what finally drives me to roll my own instance of Mastodon, and potentially Lemmy. I just worry that it’ll pummel my internet bandwidth and/or limited server capacity.
All of this yearning for drama and tribalism is exhausting… I thought I escaped it by leaving Twitter/Reddit, but it’s just bubbling its way back to the surface.
it shouldn’t pummel your bandwidth from what i understand: your instance will receive all updates and data only from things you follow; not the entire fediverse!
think of it kind of like just reading everything posted to every magazine you subscribe to!
it’s text and a few images: a single youtube video is probably bigger than a day of your fediverse subs
… assumptions and educated guesses above :)
Exactly. Some people are just looking for drama
Like say for instance, calling people little dictators?
They look like average size dictators to me.
With a fair cohort moving here to escape the creep of corporate internet, it doesn’t seem, on the face of it, like they’re looking for drama. Saying they are is a handy way of dismissing them out of hand, though.
Bingo. Conflating “every instance that ever said anything mean should be defederated” with “we should very specifically defederate Threads”.
Is the fediverse experiencing its first astorturfing? This is a serious echo of the kinds of stuff we see in other astorturfing campaigns. Straw man, muddying water, “just asking questions”, etc
Did I say everyone is looking for drama? It’s above and not edited, Some people, if someone has no idea how this tech works and does no research and comes to conclusions, yes they’re just looking for drama. Of course, there are good cases for defederation and must be considered.