[kwlug-disc] The Fediverse is complicated

[Paul Nijjar]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 06:24:25PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc (kwlug-disc at kwlug.org):
> 
> > "The infamous federated timeline" and the many schisms that are
> > happening right now are making me glad not to be a Mastodon admin. My
> > claim that "the fediverse is complicated" still stands.
> > 
> > The decisions Mastodon has made around federation are.. interesting. 
> 
> Each Mastodon admin can and should set/enforce local policy as to 
> allowed local/federated content et cetera.  This ensures that policies
> across the Fediverse will be as diverse as the admins are, and that some
> of those worthies will go on hashtag campaigns to urge all others to
> defederate this-or-that instance over $SOME_REASON with greater or
> lesser logic.
> 

Of course admins *should* do these things, but if they don't know that
they should do these things then bad things happen. Sensible defaults
matter, and I am not convinced Mastodon got these right. 

- Paul


-- 
Events: https://feeds.off-topic.kwlug.org 
Housing: https://unionsd.coop
Blog: http://pnijjar.freeshell.org