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Re: Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News (2013)

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Users can move to other instances on Mastodon without tremendous effort, and it seems like your main beef, about some admin limiting what you can see by capriciously de-federating left and right seems to be primarily hypothetical. Why wouldn’t one start out on a pretty open, well-connected instance, follow whomever they want (‘constructing what you want to see’), and defer worrying until/unless some actual admin acti…

> Users can move to other instances on Mastodon without tremendous effort Moving instances is unnecessary friction. I don't care if you qualify it as tremendous or not > and it seems like your main beef, about some admin limiting what you can see by capriciously de-federating left and right seems to be primarily hypothetical. What a disingenuous comment. You went from "have surveyed the 200k instances" to "it's hypot…

I wasn't trying to rebuke you. I was just genuinely confused because I haven't ever seen such drama go down at all. I just use mastodon the way I used to use twitter, which is to say, i scroll through it every now and then and see posts by my favorite podcast hosts. Most of them are on mastodon.social and most of the rest have self-hosted instances of their own. Nobody's defederated anybody amongst these instances that I know of, so I wasn't aware it was a big problem on the mainstream instances.

Anyway, clearly the "Fediverse" doesn't work for you. Okay. All these platforms have downsides, and unless one's willing to go all the way to DIY kind of stuff, yup, we're going to be subject to the whims of someone we hope will be generally benign in their actions. LMK if you discover a way around that.

Re: Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News (2013)

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having each persons identity tied to the instance makes the whole thing way too unstable and centralized. identity needs to exist outside the bounds of instances.

So having a central identity has pros and cons, right? One of the cons is you’d then be beholden to whomever runs the identity service and that takes away a lot of the autonomy of the Fediverse.

you can have decentralized identity separate from the instances.

maybe all the lemmyverse instances share an identity chain, and all the mastadon instances share an identity chain, and they are both cross compatible with any other instance variant that supports the standard.

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