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   Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2024 19:06:14 JST Chris Trottier

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   @pixelpusher220 @baralheia @noxypaws @AS4gBPS9axYI2RYbEe.snarfed.org@snarfed.org @fediversenews Opt-out is the default of the Fediverse. As a server admin, I don’t actively choose who federates with me. Federation happens as soon as my server “sees” another.

   There is a way to change this default towards opt-in, and that’s by whitelisting. Most servers, including universeodon.com, don’t choose to go this route because it severely affects their visibility.

   Another problem is that, even if you whitelist, once your content federates onto another server, it is beyond your control. It exists elsewhere. A malicious party who is on another server may interact with it in a distasteful, insensitive, perhaps illegal manner.

   The way some servers have gotten around this is by turning off federation entirely. That is an option, but probably not one that most people on the Fediverse want.

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     tallship (tallship@public.mitra.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2024 19:06:21 JST tallship

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     @atomicpoet @pixelpusher220 @fediversenews @noxypaws @baralheia

     Yes indeed, Thanks for making that clarification for all of the clueless people posting here who hitherto believed otherwise, as if they ever had it that way.

     They'll complain and threaten to go somewhere else, and of course, they're welcome to that option as well, but in the end...

     "“Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

     #tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #bridges #innovation #fools

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     Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 12:51:44 JST Tim Chambers

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     @atomicpoet @baralheia @noxypaws @pixelpusher220 @fediversenews

     Nicely put, Chris.