> and the notion of a single "decentralized social network" is not. I've been running my own Pleroma instance for a month or so and I'm firmly of the opinion t

> and the notion of a single "decentralized social network" is not. I've been running my own Pleroma instance for a month or so and I'm firmly of the opinion that a single network is actually a Bad Idea. The fact that ActivityPub is federated means that it's also prone to abuse from other nodes similar to email spam, which is just about as simple to execute in the fediverse right now as rolling a new domain name. Small-time casual admins like myself won't be able to keep up with a global abuse firehose which hasn't really happened yet to my knowledge but will sooner or later. The solution in my mind (and what I've already done) is to use a node whitelist instead of relying on blacklisting, which means smaller networks based foremost on interpersonal trust. Which means a constellation of much smaller but also stronger social networks that reflect actual communities as opposed to just the internet at large. This is super easy to do with ActivityPub servers and my prediction is this is the way forward although I expect people will also try to write clever abuse filters and fall into that perpetual cat-and-mouse game since that's what happened with email.