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You'd have to have a lot of trust that the one instance wouldn't get enshittified and end up as another X / Truth Social / BlueSky. Different instances can als
by incompatible 10mo ago
You'd have to have a lot of trust that the one instance wouldn't get enshittified and end up as another X / Truth Social / BlueSky.
Different instances can also have different rules, different moderation and different federation.
Edit: and exist in different legal jurisdictions, and also be harder to ban or regulate.
- akho 10mo agoHaving many instances is not the same as federation.
- incompatible 10mo agoIsn't one a subset of the other? A system with federation must have multiple instances, but a system with multiple instances doesn't need to federate (in the sense of information passing between independently managed instances.)
- akho 10mo agoYes. My original question was whether federation is necessary for the kind of communities Mastodon serves, not whether the web must have multiple websites.