@r I went into cwebber’s video call and asked him to self-host so I could communicate with him (I’m blocked from Octodon) and he basically said “blah blah upholding community standards blah blah I’m happy with it”
@r Run by a 23 year old “they/she/her” who sometimes identifies as a girl but sometimes doesn’t. This is the server an ActivityPub spec author uses.
@r @alex
This mentality is so subtly but importantly wrong.
No one has an obligation to federate with anyone. This is *true* freedom. That's how real life works too.
The Fediverse is fractured, which is inevitable and natural, because the Fediverse most closely resembles real life, which is also fractured into communities.
btw, the "open" means "non proprietary".
@Jessica
Remember when I had to annoy and wheedle gargron for like 4 days straight before he'd check the box he wrote? And he took that time to turn my instance block into a user block so I wouldn't show up on the list? Good times.
@r @p @alex @torresjrjr
> > This is *true* freedom.
> ... for the admins
> blocking on people's behalf is the antithesis of freedom.
In *that* context, I agree. Ideally everyone would have their own instance, and federate as they wish. True freedom.
Obviously there's a huge barrier and cost to that, so entrusting someone else at a relatively small cost is the next feasible option.
The cost per freedom goes up for massive instances, which is why its important to de-clusterize.
@p @r @alex
Great to hear of those efforts. This is definitely a community effort and I'm eager to contribute.
> > The cost of freedom goes up for massive instances.
> I'm not sure what that means.
I meant that if you sacrifice some freedom and entrust your account to a bigger instance, the cost is greater because admins are more distant, their administrative desicions are more detached and less accountable, etc.
@p
This has always been my biggest worry. Mastodon is especially notorious for not just keeping control away from the end user, but also gaslighting said user.
Instead of a message saying "Communication with this server isn't possible because of a block on this server.", it just pretends people don't exist.
@r @alex @torresjrjr
> This is *true* freedom.
...For the admins, not the people using the instance. It's not a coincidence that the admins that are the most block-happy are the least transparent. People making decisions on behalf of others is the antithesis of freedom.