It’s a weird own goal for various Mastodon admins who are running a decentralized social network based on interoperable protocols to pledge that they won’t interoperate with services from existing social networks if built on the same open protocols.

It’s not even the hypocrisy, it’s just dumb and undermines the entire point of interoperable protocols.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/06/19/not-that-kind-of-open

Not That Kind of ‘Open’

Link to: https://fedipact.online/

Daring Fireball
@carnage4life The other benefit of being decentralized is that instances can make that choice and the system will still work. If a server doesn’t want to connect to another for any reason - and I’d say that this is a good reason - it’s wonderful, intended even, that they don’t have to.