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It's not a problem of federation, it's a problem with ActivityPub or at least the networks built on it. The current system is echo-chambery in nature because yo

It's not a problem of federation, it's a problem with ActivityPub or at least the networks built on it. The current system is echo-chambery in nature because your instance owner does not only control your own speech being hosted there, but also who you're allowed to read from your feed and who you're allowed to talk to. It may be intentional, it may be due to a byproduct of how the federation details are implemented, but regardless of how it came to be the end result is an undesirable protocol for discourse and as far as I'm concerned, not worth the effort compared to just switching to scraping Reddit until a worthwhile federated social network appears.

joseph8th 3y ago
Having run a Mastodon solo instance for a while now, I disagree on several points... Mastodon has very few federation blocks built-in. Truth Social and Gab are about it. In both cases, the defederation is mutual, because even those two cesspools don't wanna mix effluence with each other, never mind the rest of the "libtards" in the wildly diverse and worldly Fediverse. They've chosen to be siloed. So that pretty much demolishes the idea that even Mastodon is somehow intrinsically "echo-chambery". There are, again, no other built-in domain blocks. If Mastodon is "echo-chambery" it's because the alternative is to remain federated with absolute cesspools. I made it 3 months running my instance before I had to start banning whole domains. There's multiple websites to help Mastodon admins curb the incessant shitstorm that exists in the Fediverse. Whole troll farms do nothing but pump out juvenile invective at innocent users... hundreds of posts with nothing but the N-word, K-word, F-word and detailed rape threats. Again... this is happening on ActivityPub, right now. You tell me... is it creating an echo chamber to ban Nazi scum?

joseph8th 3y ago

Having run a Mastodon solo instance for a while now, I disagree on several points... Mastodon has very few federation blocks built-in. Truth Social and Gab are about it. In both cases, the defederation is mutual, because even those two cesspools don't wanna mix effluence with each other, never mind the rest of the "libtards" in the wildly diverse and worldly Fediverse. They've chosen to be siloed. So that pretty much demolishes the idea that even Mastodon is somehow intrinsically "echo-chambery". There are, again, no other built-in domain blocks. If Mastodon is "echo-chambery" it's because the alternative is to remain federated with absolute cesspools. I made it 3 months running my instance before I had to start banning whole domains. There's multiple websites to help Mastodon admins curb the incessant shitstorm that exists in the Fediverse. Whole troll farms do nothing but pump out juvenile invective at innocent users... hundreds of posts with nothing but the N-word, K-word, F-word and detailed rape threats. Again... this is happening on ActivityPub, right now. You tell me... is it creating an echo chamber to ban Nazi scum?