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In practice this is not true. De-federating based on association is not common, and mostly used by very tight and usually small servers. The big ones don't do t
by thejohnconway 4y ago
In practice this is not true. De-federating based on association is not common, and mostly used by very tight and usually small servers. The big ones don't do that.
Truth social defederated itself.
- romwell 4y ago>De-federating based on association is not common As long as it's possible, it will happen.
- smoldesu 4y agoAnd it should. The alternative (forcing everyone to ingest everything) makes the system rife for abuse in all sorts of ways.
- chroma 4y agoYou only see the objectionable stuff if you follow those accounts or people who retweet those accounts. De-federation prevents people who want to communicate from communicating.
- toofy 4y ago> De-federation prevents people who want to communicate from communicating. no, it doesn’t. in fact, it’s far better than any of the centralized private closed off social media liek fb or twitter. it absolutely does not stop you from joining any mastodon server you want to join.
- thejohnconway 4y agoIt does in certain places, as I said, but the big mainstream servers don’t do it.