Clarification
You do not have to worry about your mastodon.social (m.s) account being defederated.
There is a well meaning, but misleading post currently promoted that suggests you should move your m.s account because:
1) "Instance admins are considering defederating them"
2) "Their admin is making spam accounts easier to create."
Very few, if any, instances are considering blocking m.s, and the recent spam attacks are worthy of sober discussion, not hyperbole. [more]
@daniel As discussed above, the issue here is not whether some instances temporarily blocked mastodon.social while the attack was going on. The implication was that people on mastodon.social were at risk for being "defederated" and that they should change instances to avoid this. This was a misleading because peoples accounts on mastodon.social are not at risk of being isolated.
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I don't think people are realising the danger the Fediverse is in. The only thing stopping corporations and VCs taking over this place is that the Fediverse is spread out on many different servers, which makes it very difficult to purchase. If most of the Fediverse ends up on mastodon.social, which is now a strong possibility, there will be nothing to stop most of it being sold to Musk or Zuckerberg or whoever. The bigger mastodon.social becomes, the more likely a buyout is to happen. (1/4)
It's not a scare tactic.
Blocking mastodon.social is now seriously on the cards for many admins, even ones who would never have done it before.
The reason the Fediverse exists is to be decentralised. M.s is way too large now, and getting even larger due to the official app's terrible new onboarding.
If people want this place to be decentralised, they need to move off mastodon.social. If they don't care, then they can expect more fediblocks as m.s grows.
@feditips @mastodonmigration @daniel
Why a block? Why not limit or silence if one wants to take action? At least until there are moderator tools to help avoid these attacks?
Blocking sounds extreme to me.
Blocking might cause a large exit from the Fediverse if people feel they are being made pawns in some sort of internal uprising.
I'd be pissed if suddenly I lost all my connections to people I communicate with on mastodon.social. I'd think, "who the hell are these people to decide that I can't talk to my friends any longer or follow people who I like to follow."
I'd leave permanently. I would never trust another server Admin. I'd never come back.
Convince me that I'm wrong.
@Jerry @mastodonmigration @daniel
"I'd be pissed if suddenly I lost all my connections to people I communicate with on mastodon.social. "
It's not going to be painless, but it will be a lot easier than if m.s becomes a majority of the Fediverse.
If that happens, the Fedi itself could be bought and sold on the whim of the owner of m.s (which at the moment is Eugen but who knows who it will be in the future).
It's like global warming: the longer you wait, the harder it is to take action.
@guiltmanager @feditips @Jerry @mastodonmigration
its a shame theres no way to be able to put in your servers address into a search engine and see all the fediverse instances that have blocked you.There's a website that does this actually. And yes, it used to harass people which is why I'm not going to share the address.
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