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thingsiplay@beehaw.org â¨3⊠â¨months⊠ago(hi ya!) Yes, totally understandable. The thing is, I am not inviting spez or suckerburg, but the users. They donât take control over Fediverse and we have the ability to block any instance or person we want. Itâs not just that Fediverse can grow, but so that it becomes the standard protocol to communicate with others. Fediverse isnât a specific platform. Itâs basically asking for every game company open to cross play games or that Windows users can write with Linux users through web technology, with their favorite applications, accounts and servers. Finally we have an universal protocol that can be adapted by anyone, similar to what HTML became for websites.
I understand the concerns, and there is also a reason why I left Facebook over 10 years ago, donât use Twitter and Reddit.
PrimalHero@kbin.social â¨3⊠â¨months⊠ago
I get what you say but Facebook is full of toxic users it's not suckerberg the problem. And defederating will not help because you will have to defenderate also with instances that want to federate with Facebook or else the messages will eventually come through. At least that how I
understand federation works. So eventually you would have to fediverses.
I would love to have a unifiying protocol but I really don't think it will work. It will split people eventually someone will fork the protocol so that it can not federate with Facebook, splitting it.
thingsiplay@beehaw.org â¨3⊠â¨months⊠ago
Yeah, that would zuck, if it works like this and we cannot de-federate effectively. This problem needs to be solved off course, but that is something that can be integrated later. But the important part is, let the users federate if they want, let them decide. But that off course should only happen if the system is working correctly (such as entirely federating, like you suggested).
PrimalHero@kbin.social â¨3⊠â¨months⊠ago
I am not sure it can be fixed because that is just how federation works else the activity pub would have to rewriten from scratch.
I don't see the fork being compatible because that is the reason to fork it in the first place, people not agreeing with what should be federated or not.