So, this may be a dumb question, but what’s to stop a parallel or shadow anti-fediverse of bad actors from gaining traction on their own servers and federating among themselves?
@palafo doesn’t seem like a dumb question at all. My possibly dumb answer is that I don’t think anything could stop it. But I guess the next question would be: to what end? What would this mirror universe Federation want to do?
@Chanders @palafo
Nothing will stop it, just as nothing stops 4chan and 8chan and gab and such on the web. There's also experience with civilized servers rejecting a nazi server en masse; you depend to a great extend on the wisdom of your server administrator, as I understand things. If you don't like yours, at least you can switch.
I believe this is the point about defederating, wisdom of the commons. Servers can exist but if you have accounts on those servers, you can only go and play there. Others in the federarion will 'defederate', so those posts will not show up or propagate through the known fediverse. A little more complex than deep web IMO
