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   Alison 🇦🇺 (rose_myrtle@theres.life)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 09:03:09 JST Alison 🇦🇺

   it'd be kind of cool if we could limit posts to neighbourhood servers, not just this server or followers - and include adjacent faith based servers. I think the idea Josias? had for neighbourhoods was a good one

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     Alison 🇦🇺 (rose_myrtle@theres.life)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 14:20:18 JST Alison 🇦🇺

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     • glyn

     @underlap 'neighbourhoods' is a concept where a server would have a shortlist of servers it considered to be 'neighbours', managed my the server admins.

     If I've understood it correctly, anyway

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     glyn (underlap@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 14:20:19 JST glyn

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     @rose_myrtle Fascinating. Would "adjacent" simply mean "in the same neighbourhood" or do you have some kind of adjacency metric (measurement) in mind?

     Would this be a general feature, (i.e. not just for faith-based servers)? In that case, any given server could belong to zero or more neighbourhoods of different kinds.

     I'm wondering whether this would require ActivityPub to be extended or whether it could be layered on top of the existing Fediverse and, if so, how.

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     Alison 🇦🇺 (rose_myrtle@theres.life)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 14:25:02 JST Alison 🇦🇺

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     • Timothy R. Butler

     @underlap @trbutler

     So I guess you could probably just add it as an additional layer on top of an instance if you wanted to.

     Unless you wanted some kind of handshake ("may this server friend your server?")

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     Alison 🇦🇺 (rose_myrtle@theres.life)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 20:45:10 JST Alison 🇦🇺

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     • Timothy R. Butler

     @underlap @trbutler I'm guessing no because your friends' friends aren't automatically your friends?

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     glyn (underlap@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 20:45:11 JST glyn

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     • Timothy R. Butler

     @trbutler @rose_myrtle Would affinity be transitive? In other words, is my neighbour's neighbour automatically my neighbour too?

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     Timothy R. Butler (trbutler@mastodon.faithtree.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 20:45:12 JST Timothy R. Butler

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     • glyn

     @underlap @rose_myrtle I’d love that if it were to come out… it seems like most servers probably have other servers in their “affinity group” one might benefit from more tightly connecting with. We’re in that faith based group, but also have a fair number of FOSS enthusiasts. I’m imagining Venn diagrams of affiliations here…