Comment on The need for a Fedi Union.
lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 4 months agoI 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 4 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 4 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.
Carighan@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Sure, so long as it comes with the responsibility of the users to pay, they get to have a say in moderation.
Otherwise, they get to vote with their browser: Use the site if they like it, do not use it if they don’t. And the same for the software. Don’t like Mastodon, use another microblogging software.
This is the key underlying idea behind the federation of activitypub. Do not undermine it. This is not Reddit, or Twitter, or whatever. This is not a central place, it does not need central evolution, vote by abandonment.
(and I’m not saying I agree with Mastodon’s dev, seeing how I couldn’t give a rat’s ass about microblogging in general, but again, it’s his instance, everyone is free to use whatever they agree with)