My unpopular opinion: Federating with everyone by default is not sustainable.
It’s inevitable that the lemmyverse will shatter, and everyone will be better for it.
Instances will develop their own policies around moderation and behaviour, and federate with other instances with compatible policies.
Basically, federation only works if everyone is acting in good faith. It wouldn’t take much for a single entity acting in bad faith to fuck the entire fediverse presently.
Presently admits are blacklisting the bad faith instances. That’s going to change so admins whitelist compatible instances.
It only taking one asshole is why it doesn’t work. You just never going to have no assholes. So you need a justice system, and a way of policing the policing of it.
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
My unpopular opinion: Federating with everyone by default is not sustainable.
It’s inevitable that the lemmyverse will shatter, and everyone will be better for it.
Instances will develop their own policies around moderation and behaviour, and federate with other instances with compatible policies.
Basically, federation only works if everyone is acting in good faith. It wouldn’t take much for a single entity acting in bad faith to fuck the entire fediverse presently.
Presently admits are blacklisting the bad faith instances. That’s going to change so admins whitelist compatible instances.
jabjoe@feddit.uk 3 months ago
Exactly. Without rules and enforcement, you just get a cesspit. Anarchy just doesn’t work.
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
Perhaps more accurately, anarchy only works if everyone’s objectives are similar or at least compatible.
Like it would be nice to live in a town where you don’t need to lock your doors, but it only takes one asshole to make that untenable.
jabjoe@feddit.uk 3 months ago
It only taking one asshole is why it doesn’t work. You just never going to have no assholes. So you need a justice system, and a way of policing the policing of it.