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Doesn't pretty much everyone using the same instance pretty much defeat the point?
by jsheard 1y ago
Doesn't pretty much everyone using the same instance pretty much defeat the point?
- archagon 1y agoWe’re talking about the average user. They’re not going to be particularly passionate about federation. The point, to them, is to have a functioning Twitter-like social network.
- Diti 1y agoThe average user starts caring about censorship, AFAIK. And Bluesky has done very nasty ToS changes that only federation would have helped fight against. But this is off-topic, because the ToS changes are mostly about porn, while this HN submission is about the professional use of Bluesky.
- ethbr1 1y agoThe only thing that would help with running sadly illegal in increasing parts of the world (including US) adult content servers would be not having a corporate entity. It's difficult to fund rapid development at the scale needed, with that hobble.
- sumeno 1y agoThen why would the average user bother signing up for mastodon over something else
- LexiMax 1y agoI'll be completely honest, as someone who remembers the internet before social networks, I have started caring less and less about being crammed into a single shared social space with every other person on earth.
- krapp 1y agoNo, because the point is that not everyone is forced to use the same instance. When I started on Mastodon I created an account for each instance I wanted to post to, which was slightly annoying but not much more complicated than signing up for different subreddits. Now I have my own hosted account and follow whomever I like from there. Of course you can follow any account from any account (if the admin hasn't blocked it.)