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
@carnage4life open for the sake of open is not the point. Safety and inclusivity is the point.
Meta has a track record of shitty moderation, so why would communities built specifically to be a safe harbor for marginalized folks federate with them? How is that dumb?
@natik @carnage4life Mastodon has a track record of shitty moderation, so is it going to ban itself?
Mastodon already caused mass exodus after marginalized folks were subjected to an endless racist attacks, even on instances like my own, yet almost noone defederated off it.
Step down that high horse.
@MarcinW @carnage4life perhaps you shouldn’t generalize to all instances then? Mine is much smaller, and also has a history of drama.
My point, though, is that any instance can be open, within its code of conduct, and can build out its own federation and moderation principles. A lot of instances will learn the hard way that moderation is hard. That doesn’t make attempting to do so stupid.
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