#Seveneves spoiler
At the end of Seveneves, the Aïdans unveil a challenge to the rest of the races on their side of the ring (it’s been years, the details are a little fuzzy).
How long until we have an evil #fediverse?
Or does it already exist?
Yes, there are already factions pushing for instances to ban each other, aligning over particular ideas about how each instance should behave.
I'm sure at least some of those regard the other as evil fediverse.
Here's an example. I searched for the hashtag fedifence and saw a few posts about these divisions.
Some of it is like ideas about viral open source software licenses, where for better or worse people want to use network effects to nudge norms, to put it neutrally.
I hear people saying if X doesn't agree to block Y then we must all block X as well to encourage blocking of Y.
@volkris Good lord, sounds like the old chestnut about academia – that the politics are so vicious because the stakes are so low. Thank you for the link!
Ha! That's a funny line here.
Well, to be fair, though, many of these people are so upset because some literally do think of these as life or death issues. They are convinced that unless their censorship preferences are put into place, people will die.
But then, maybe outsized ideas about the stakes also apply to your academia analogy too.
@volkris this is super interesting. I’m curious what the major questions are, and whether we’re talking about significant disagreements, or minor doctrinal differences