Or… how about we just treat the fediverse like it is a…. public forum…. and use different tools for having more private conversations?
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TheBaldness@beehaw.org 2 months agoNo we don’t. We need small instances, each with their own specific topics and communities that DO NOT share your information far and wide, like the fediverse does. I don’t think the fediverse model is the way forward.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
EtzBetz@feddit.de 2 months ago
But by not sharing anything, you’d loose users who don’t want to sign up for each instance individually. I think it would be a good way to be able to sign up once on one instance and then being able to use all other instances available, but the chats etc of one instance being private to the instance itself.
TheBaldness@beehaw.org 2 months ago
True, and then there’s the other side of the coin. Federation exposes you to trolls, nazis, and doxxing.
EtzBetz@feddit.de 2 months ago
Well I guess if you wanted you could just run it defederated? And you could also build in that the instance/guild owner needs to accept joins, I guess?