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   FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jul-2023 03:01:16 JST FediTips has moved!

   Are you wondering why this place is on so many servers?

   There are really important reasons for this, to do with user safety, sustainability, and empowerment of users and grassroots communities. You can read all the reasons here:

   ➡️ https://fedi.tips/why-is-the-fediverse-on-so-many-separate-servers/

   On a centralised network like Twitter etc, if owners turn bad, users are stuck there, powerless to do anything. Owners can get away with terrible things.

   On decentralised networks, users have real power, and bad owners suffer consequences.

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     Kathrin (kathrin@trouth.eu)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jul-2023 03:13:07 JST Kathrin

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     @feditips

     The problem is, the fediverse is more brittle than this makes it sound. It's still better than any centralized platform, but it's not as robust as it should be:

     1. Small servers can and will go down without a warning, leaving users stranded and their data lost. The Mastodon pledge tries to get a handle on this, but only works when people adhere to it.

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     Kathrin (kathrin@trouth.eu)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jul-2023 03:18:38 JST Kathrin

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     @feditips

     2. Similarly, it is still much too difficult (or mostly downright impossible) to move accounts between different fediverse services. If a whole project withers away - usually because the lead and only dev loses interest - it can leave an entire ecosystem with nowhere to go.

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     Kathrin (kathrin@trouth.eu)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jul-2023 03:24:06 JST Kathrin

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     @feditips

     3. Moderation is still an unsolved problem, in that bad actors can only get acted on 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 the damage has already been done. Centralized platforms can actually get out in front of this easier because they can at least implement some pre-screening during signup. The fediverse signup process is completely unmoderated, as bad actors can just use bad platforms (or their own) to launch their harassment from.

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     Kathrin (kathrin@trouth.eu)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jul-2023 03:25:48 JST Kathrin

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     @feditips

     4. I think we underestimate the power billionaires can have when they want to take over an entire technology. If they really put their power and money to it, they don't need to "outcompete" us with their own services, they can go to the root and sabotage ActivityPub itself.

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     Kathrin (kathrin@trouth.eu)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jul-2023 03:31:36 JST Kathrin

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     @feditips

     And finally

     5. There are a number of legal problems the fediverse is ripe for exploitation for. Copyright is a main issue - every server just violates copyright on the daily, on a mass scale, simply by including posts from other servers in their timeline that the individual user has not given consent to. Enterprising attorneys may discover this as a source of income in the not too distant future.

     5/5

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 00:06:26 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • Nahum Philoxenon

     @NWengrov

     ...as happened with Freenode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenode

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     Nahum Philoxenon (nwengrov@tooot.im)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 00:06:27 JST Nahum Philoxenon

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     @feditips
     This was what was so great with IRC back in the day when that medium was popular. If the mods on your chatroom ("Channel") abused their power, you moved to another channel or started your own. If the admins of your server/network abused their power or were negligent, you moved servers/networks or opened your own. I miss those days.

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     Aidan (mistyquisty@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 06:59:07 JST Aidan

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     • FediFollows

     @feditips I’d love to see an account like @FediFollows that suggests smaller instances to follow. I am thinking of joining a smaller instance but don’t really know where to go.

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 06:59:07 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • FediFollows
     • Fedi.Garden ?
     • Aidan

     @MistyQuisty @FediFollows

     I run one, it's called @FediGarden and there's a website at https://fedi.garden

     All of the instances listed are under 50k and obey the Mastodon Covenant. It also includes non-Mastodon servers which obey the covenant's rules. More info at https://fedi.garden/about-this-site/