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I don't think I understand what you mean by Mastodon being people's living rooms. I mean, a user's identity is @username@domain, and I can follow local or remo
by lokedhs 7y ago
I don't think I understand what you mean by Mastodon being people's living rooms.
I mean, a user's identity is @username@domain, and I can follow local or remote users equally easy, and most of the time I don't even notice where they are posting from.
If that's my living room, it sure looks like a living room that's wide open and the size of the planet.
- rglullis 7y agoI just went with OP's metaphor. It makes sense when you take in consideration how a lot of Mastodon instances are being created and being kept closed from the federation by the admins or being too trigger-happy to block other instances on the grounds of "people over there say mean and offensive things". For some of them, it is indeed just a bunch of kids hanging out in their rooms
- lokedhs 7y agoOk, I see what you mean. I've been on the Fediverse for a bit over a year (I think, I could be more?) and I've seen some drama around this. That said, the number of instances that engage in excessive blocking seems to be rather limited. I'm not sure it's such a large problem in practice.