Michael Nov 9, 2022

This looks like it might turn into the first big drama of this #TwitterMigration

http://scholar.social (academic server) is defederating from http://journa.host (journalist server) because of the history of some of the journalists on the latter.

If others follow suit, there might be a lot of confused journalists out there soon.

https://scholar.social/@socrates/109310119094734208

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Show threadMichael Nov 9, 2022

Another day, another warning of #defederation or blocking.

Yesterday, #journalists on a profession-based instance were the target.

Today it's because a country-based instance has allowed their #police force to set up an account. I've never seen any mention of this being an issue in any server's rules, not even on the instance that issued this warning.

Show thread.::PH4GE::.Nov 11, 2022
@mykd what does the actual process of defederation work like? Beyond just blocking an instance
Show threadMichael Nov 11, 2022
@PH4GE That's it as far as I know. You don't peer with it so you don't send it any messages and you don't read any coming from it. There's probably more details here somewhere: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/
SocialHub

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Show thread.::PH4GE::.Nov 12, 2022
@mykd hmmm. Should have a better term then, cause hearing "defederate" gives me the impression of a consensus, when in reality this could just be as small as one instance blocking visibility of another
Show threadMichael 
@PH4GE you should post this suggestion to a few of the old hands here. I believe they’re very much enjoying getting lots of proposals for how they could improve things round here 😏
Nov 12, 2022 at 10:29amMetatext