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> It doesn't limit who you can follow. That's simply not true. All servers maintain blacklists of other servers they don't like and won't federate with, includ
by tredre3 1y ago
> It doesn't limit who you can follow.
That's simply not true. All servers maintain blacklists of other servers they don't like and won't federate with, including mastodon.social: https://mastodon.social/about https://mastodon.social/about (last section, "Moderated servers")
You could argue that it's normal to block problematic servers, but it's not you the user who gets to define what is problematic, it's your server. Therefore your choice of server may very well prevent you from seeing content you'd like to see.
- jghn 1y agoSure, and I did almost mention that. This is an outlier though. When people normally discuss this they act as if their choice of server has a huge impact on whom they can follow. Except for degenerate cases this isn’t true
- LexiMax 1y ago> Therefore your choice of server may very well prevent you from seeing content you'd like to see. How is this any different than users of different IRC networks being unable to communicate with each other? If I'm on OFTC, I certainly don't complain about not being able to talk to people on Libera.chat. I just....join the server and start talking.
- Ferret7446 1y agoBecause IRCs aren't social media platforms? Creating an "account" on an IRC server is trivial, and you don't have a permanent profile or friend lists, etc
- LexiMax 1y agoSpeak for yourself, but filling out a web-based form that asks for your desired username, password, and e-mail address is much easier than crafting a special registration request private message to an IRC services bot. You solve the problem of multiple servers on Mastodon the same way you do on IRC - with a Mastodon client. If anything, it's _much_ easier to keep track of multiple accounts on Mastodon than it is on IRC.