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If I and my friends are on the same pod, and I get banned from it, can I still talk to them?
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I may have those too; I was at a company that bid to host microsoft.public around that time and their views on Usenet were very enlightening. I'll see if I can dig them up. (Funniest part of the requirements spec: it had to "appear to be" hosted on a Windows server...)
That is ... amusing. As I recall, there was some degree of contention over whether or not Unix (a/k/a not infrequently Linux), or servers from a certain Redmond, WA, based company were superior and/or at all capable of general Internet hosting, at the time. Hotmail comes to mind as well. FreeBSD.
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I spent 8 years working on Appleseed (also a federated social network, 2003 to approx. 2011) and it was worth every minute, even though it never went anywhere. Working on a problem that nobody has been able to solve gives you really good insight into software engineering that you can't get when you're implementing other people's solutions, no matter how complex those solutions are. Even though I failed, I benefited q…
Hey Michael, good to see you around :)
If I and my friends are on the same pod, and I get banned from it, can I still talk to them?
What do you mean by "get banned"? If you mean you violate the term of use and the podmin closed your account, you can create one on another pod and re-add your friends for sure.
I dont want to be on a platform that can hold my friend hostage, is why I'm asking.
EDIT: If hub federation is needed for asynch messages, and unblockable (by hub owner) p2p used for chat when both users are online, then I guess that would be acceptable.