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   Hrefna (DHC) (hrefna@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 17:15:48 JST Hrefna (DHC)

   Like if you have a bunch of perfectly spherical individuals running around in a frictionless vacuum sure it makes sense.

   But in the real world where you have like… actual networks to deal with, and partitions, and security patches, and spammers, and CSAM, and… to deal with.

   We need to consider the degree to which this fetishization of single user servers is meaningfully coherent as a strategy.
   https://hachyderm.io/@hrefna/113899314270714595

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 17:52:43 JST Rich Felker

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     @hrefna AP based fedi (not to mention the fake decentralized stuff like bsky) is not well suited to single user instances.

     You can't leverage shared moderation resources, or the aspect of instance as a privacy union that makes it safe to forward reports to other instances or post links to external sites without them being able to track who shared it.

     We can build a new fedi with autonomous identity & flexible hosting, but it's a big project. And until then, well-run shared instances are the best path we have.

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     db0 (db0@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 18:40:57 JST db0

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     @hrefna I actually like that fediverse promotes the concept of an affinity group being the smallest most efficient unit