@Benj⛤min :verified: Still, it started something great. I remember how enthousiastic I was when I first heard about Diaspora*, long ago. This was how social media should be, not that Facebook that everybody and his mother were flocking to.
I never ran my own server, didn't seem worth the effort because I didn't do social media at the time, but I was very much intrigued by the idea.
And see where it brought us: Diaspora* may be slowly dying, but all kinds of alternatives have emerged. The concept is still very much alive today, it's just the protocol of this particular thing that's slowly being abandoned.
Why the #Fediverse is fundamentally better than all those walled gardens, even though it's in no way a silver bullet
Cory Doctorow wrote:A service that isn’t federated is unfit for purpose, and the managers who decided not to federate it demonstrate by their acts that they are not worthy of our trust.
@Cory Doctorow on why you should distrust those services.
@Gijs Hillenius Good stuff, Spamhaus. They block on more criteria than just the IP, depending on which services you use. They have, for example, a plugin for SpamAssassin, which actually scans the content of a message.