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   Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Nov-2022 08:55:44 JST Alexandre Oliva

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   • 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱
   ultimately-twisted intersectionality leading to unitary sets? who'd have thunk? :-/
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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Nov-2022 08:55:45 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     • Niclas Hedhman
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     @niclas

     no because it doesnt create clean little islands, sadly.. it creates fractured threads where everyone is talking and you cant see half the messages, and the messages you cant see are different than what someone else can see. It drives people to ultimately smaller and smaller islands.

     The problem lies int he viral nature of the defederating... the current peer pressure is such that every server demands every other server block the same people they do, meanwhile each server has a different block list. When this plays out to completion everyone is forced into small niche islands and there is no fediverse, if you try to participate in a larger fediverse you are kicked out of even your small island, so no fediverse can exist by that point... it is headed there fast.

     @dusnm

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     Niclas Hedhman (niclas@angrytoday.com)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Nov-2022 08:55:46 JST Niclas Hedhman

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     • 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

     @freemo

     Right, but doesn't that mean that there will be one larger cluster of people who don't defederate and numerous islands of people who are in their respective preferred "safe space". Isn't that Ok?

     I want the bazaar and the pub, but you might want your living room.

     Just curious.

     @dusnm

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Nov-2022 08:55:47 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     • Niclas Hedhman
     • Dušan Mitrović

     @niclas

     Some fracturing is fine... The issue here is two fold.. 1) the fracturing is happening bassed off gossip and not informed facts 2) people are threatening to defederate with anyone who doesnt defederate from the same people they do. This has a viral effect that could be quite harmful.

     @dusnm

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     Niclas Hedhman (niclas@angrytoday.com)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Nov-2022 08:55:48 JST Niclas Hedhman

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     • Dušan Mitrović
     • 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

     @dusnm

     I tend to agree... Is there really a problem?

     If "most think that defederation is not wanted", doesn't that mean that most are not defederated by definition?

     And those who wants to be outside that larger cluster have all their rights to do so...

     Maybe I am missing something important here.

     @freemo

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     Dušan Mitrović (dusnm@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Nov-2022 08:55:49 JST Dušan Mitrović

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     • 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

     @freemo I'm not specifically disagreeing with you. I'm thinking about the problem as well and deciding whether I think it's a problem.

     You said the fracturing of the fediverse is unwanted. Suppose it is. The main way fracturing happens is through the use of defederation. My question is not how would we address this, it's whether we need to address it.

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Nov-2022 08:55:51 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     • Dušan Mitrović

     @dusnm My solution is **not** to convince anyone not to use defederation.. so your making a lot of assumptions about my intent here.

     You might want to ask yourself, why do yo already find yourself disagreeing with me when I havent even made my proposal public yet?

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     Dušan Mitrović (dusnm@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Nov-2022 08:55:52 JST Dušan Mitrović

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     • 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

     @freemo The software (at least Mastodon) is specifically designed to make defederation one of the most useful options in content moderation. How else would we deal with malicious actors? This will inevitably lead to formation of factions as it indeed does. I'd argue it's part of our nature as people, a natural extension of our right to self-determination. To be clear, I have no qualms with people who decide not to use this, it's as much a right to not use it as it is to do.

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Nov-2022 08:55:53 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     • Dušan Mitrović

     @dusnm Unwanted by many.. by my judgement the majority in fact, at least based on how im seeing the conversation go.

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     Dušan Mitrović (dusnm@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Nov-2022 08:55:54 JST Dušan Mitrović

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     • 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

     @freemo Unwanted? By whom? You, qoto.org, someone else? There's certainly no consensus to whether the formation of factions is unwanted.

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Nov-2022 08:55:55 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

     I want to thank everyone for the ovwhelming support for our cause, you guys mean a lot.

     I have been tthinking a lot lately and thing I have a social solution to this problem. It is something I am going to start doing a writeup on ttoday. I think it will not just thelp QOTO but in general address the unwantant fracturing of the fediverse.

     I will share the dettails once my writeup is complete but if anyone is intterested in hearing more or potentially help being a part of it, please reply here or reach out to me in DM.

     #mastoadmin #fediblock #qoto #fediverse