@lmorchard

"Sure, they've gotten drunk and trashed the place at every single party they've been invited to in living memory, but that doesn't mean they'll do it at *ours*."

@lmorchard are we forgetting about MetaFacebooks past crimes though? Don't accuse me of condemning them for future crimes, they have plenty of shit in the past to condemn them from.

How strict will their adherence to the ActivityPub protocol be? Will they bastardise their own?

What about their real name policies, why were they so strict about it before, and how will they deal with it now?

Will they comply with post archival and deletion policies ie. Let me be forgotten. Or will be be feeding their next AI language model and profiled endlessly? Last I checked they made it damn near impossible to delete your own data en masse.

Also, are they paying tax yet?

@lmorchard
IMO the Fediverse is not an open federation, and it can never be one.
It's interconnected, sure, but each interconnection is subject to admins' politics, similar to BGP peerings or interconnects between telcos.

And the reason this happens is twofold:
- instances aren't content-neutral, their admins do moderation
- the protocol trusts remote instances in certain aspects, it doesn't guarantee the security properties people expect

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@thelaughingmuse Sure, but also some folks join instances that offer certain moderation promises. So. the folks hosting those instances do make decisions for everyone on the instance (ideally) in accordance with those promises. That way, it doesn't have to be a constant repeated individual decision.

In fact, you should choose include that in what leads you to hang out on some particular instance.

@thelaughingmuse @lmorchard I made my decision. I decided I wanted to join together with a group of people who place trust in the admins of my particular instance to make decisions I would like to follow, which allows us increased time-efficiency per person (removing duplicated effort) and so allowing for higher-quality, less knee-jerk decisions (because, in aggregate, more total time/energy spent making any given unique one of them).

(And if I start disagreeing with their decisions, I can decide to leave.)

And I decided to be part of a network that is technologically structured to allow me to make that decision, and that socially supports the making of that class of decisions.