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I have my Mastodon account on mastodon.social and my Lemmy account on programming.dev because they're very unlikely to be defederated and they're drama-free. I

• distract8901 3y ago
  Mastodon.social is one of the riskier places to be if you're concerned about defederation. There's a very large segment of the mastodon population that thinks servers ad big as .social are very bad for the ecosystem. A lot of instances defederate them out of principle. The argument is that .social is so big that it's not possible to moderate effectively. It also presents a very large and inviting place to launch attacks from. We frequently see waves of spam, abuse, and just bot accounts originating from .social. A lot of severs are already defederated from .social for these reasons
  • rijoja 3y ago
    Interesting. Maybe you don't want us to know who "we", are so that you become a big server, and as such bad for the ecosystem, but who are "we" exactly? Would you also know if it's commonplace for instances to deny by default, and then use whitelisting?
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    • distract8901 3y ago
      'We' is the subsection of the fediverse that federates with the server I'm on. It's a sentiment that I see everywhere on mastodon, not from any particular instances. The fringe-er instances are more likely to block by default. It's almost an issue of fediverse fundamentalism. A lot of people think large instances like .social are antithetical to what mastodon is trying to accomplish. We have huge, enormous centralized servers in the middle of a decentralized network. I think you can see how that sentiment would come about
      • rijoja 3y ago
        All right, that's very enlightening and helpful! It makes perfect sense as well.