Comment on The need for a Fedi Union.
lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 6 months agoNo, Mastodon Social, the flag-ship has not blocked Facebook’s Threads. And Gargron is very happy with that. Imagine being the main developer letting your flagship instance turn into a huge “silo” and then happy that a corporate privacy invading giant federates with your instance :/
Carighan@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Or they might just be quite into the open and federated concept, above all else.
It’s not your instance, so what do you care? Again, half the point is that you can run your instance however you want, and talk to whoever you want or do not want. Federated. Mastodon or Lemmy aren’t distributed systems, they’re federated systems.
lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
I almost did not care about replying to your comment but let me just share this with all of you. Mastodon can be called a success but quite a few people have not been too happy about the behavior of the Mastodon developer Gargron since years. Not defederating the flagship Mastodon instance which has right now apparently 242K active users from Mark Zuckerberg’s product is another nuisance for some. Maybe not for you, but for me it is.
Carighan@lemmy.world 6 months ago
But it’s his instance. The whole point is that you run your own if you want a different approach to administration.
lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
You seem to keep looking at this as the admin of your self hosted instance with only you as the only user. With large instances there comes the responsibility of moderation and that is a thing that Gargron has been lacking with years ago. And keeping the door open for new sign-ups while the idea of Federation is to decentralize, and people repeatedly asking you to show new users to other instances but not doing so is just plain horrible imho.