@phnt
>Fediverse as a network can't survive a split where basically the Mastodon and the rest divide and are unable to talk to each other
We're already at that point. The Mastodon side of the Fediverse essentially exists behind a virtual Iron Curtain of their own creation; a digital Berlin Wall of sorts with things like #fediblock. Which, is fine; This instance, my instance, blocks most of the Mastodon network preemptively, leading us to almost entirely exist within the consciousness of non-Mastodon-Fediverse. And, it's a very comfortable place to be. There was nothing gained in federating with Mastodon and, conversely, nothing lost in basically cutting them from our network collectively.
>Imagine a Fediverse, where ……
Simply, instance software should not respect the wishes of remote instance software. Simple as. As far as I'm concerned this stuff only becomes an issue whereupon our own software begins respecting remote instance demands, which I would hope developers like Silverpill never implement. Don't respect blocks, don't respect post denials, don't respect remote deletion requests. All of that, if desired, can be handled locally on the remote server. That's their own problem. You should not ever be able to issue demands against my own server.
E.g.: my server can issue any actions it wants, and receive any actions it wants; Your server does not need to respect any of the actions issued from my server, and vice-versa. If your server does not want to accept posts from my server, or deletes from my server, or wants to delete posts from my server, that's fine……only insofar as it being handled locally on your server---you should not be able to effect my own instance, however. If you want my post removed from your timeline or thread? Fine. But, it ought remain on my own instance and others' own respective instances. You want to block me? Okay. But, I can still communicate with others included in the thread and continue the conversation.
If GoToSocial wants to adopt some hivemind Borg model as well, where any server gains control over remote servers, then so be it; They can do that if they wish. I don't know anybody worth following or caring about that runs GoToSocial and my general impression of the software is that it's exclusively utilized by people somehow worse than Mastodoners.