I guess I will weigh in on Meta + ActivityPub stuff
It feels very healthy to block Meta instances. Essential, perhaps.
The point of a federated social protocol is actually NOT to be incredibly interconnected but to be very flexible in forming sub-networks. NOT to have a massive space but to have bespoke community-owned communities that can still be seen/discovered at-large if desired.
Folks are wrong to conflate this. This indeed runs counter to the world which Meta/Facebook desires/profits! 😓
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I guess I will weigh in on Meta + ActivityPub stuff
The way fedi works right now becomes increasingly confusing and messy the more examples of intransitive federation there are, though.
I guess I will weigh in on Meta + ActivityPub stuff
@robryk i get that. and it ends up being a complicated social problem. yet, there existing such "intransitive" federation is a proof by example that new platforms and modes of interactions do not split the network... you can be discovered and discover networks at "home". that's actually the goal of the protocol, and it's working. that's neat. the working group for the protocol indeed always intended interpretability via extension, not conformity