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@80b868509e9ff86a7772a32a7b182d3db3e96b96f7cf8db1952c8e95c98221da @y @3bf0c63fcb93463407af97a5e5ee64fa883d107ef9e558472c4eb9aaaefa459d Not wanting to get asked that question for the rest of my life, I argued strongly for it at various times throughout the past 1.5 years. But at the end of the day I don’t get to make that decision.

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Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Friday, 10-Mar-2023 05:14:47 JST

Alex Gleason

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@3dc473414bea4de1df1f172c3196a820719dbb58baaf8764b9edaa07c6d5e9dc @3bf0c63fcb93463407af97a5e5ee64fa883d107ef9e558472c4eb9aaaefa459d @y This was an excuse, and really not the real reason. He misunderstood how federation works and was speaking theoretically. It isn’t a resource hog, they just didn’t like what they’d see.

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Brian of London (3dc473414bea4de1df1f172c3196a820719dbb58baaf8764b9edaa07c6d5e9dc@mostr.pub)'s status on Friday, 10-Mar-2023 05:14:50 JST

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https://peakd.com/hive/@brianoflondon/gab-quietly-dumps-experiment-with-decentralisation-just-another-web-2-0-site-now I wrote about this at the time. The full post from Gab at the time is quoted there. The TL;DR is that Mastodon becomes a hideous resource hog at scale, and this is almost an ^n problem with federation. If you want some fun, post a link on a Mastadon site and then watch as dozens of instances all download it simultaneously. If a popular account shares your link it's like a DDOS attack. Quote: The ActivityPub model represents an amount of load and cost that is disproportionate to the Gab community's use and realized benefits of it. In terms of value for value for the Gab community, there is no clear way to justify further participation in the ActivityPub/Fediverse experiment. Additionally, our community is not pressing us to invest in it at a loss because they love it's vision and want to build in that direction. Gab is, therefore, spending too many dollars from sources who don't use Federation services at all or care about them in any way. That is not fair to the people who spent those dollars hoping for a better or more stable system that they want or need to use.

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fiatjaf (3bf0c63fcb93463407af97a5e5ee64fa883d107ef9e558472c4eb9aaaefa459d@mostr.pub)'s status on Friday, 10-Mar-2023 06:55:44 JST

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You mean the animes? That's probably due to the lack of proper ways to filter content, which I hope Nostr will develop eventually.

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