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Technology Connections' thoughts on Mastodon (bsky.app)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Context: Technology Connections is a YouTuber https://www.youtube.com/@TechnologyConnections

This is his account on Mastodon https://mas.to/@TechConnectify

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Couldn't disagree more.

The simple fact of the matter is, the fediverse is local. Everything you interact with is locally hosted on whichever website you're using. That means, if I'm running Mastodon or Lemmy on my website, I'm platforming everyone who has contact with my website.

And I'm not going to want to platform a lot of people. I'm not going to want to pay to host their posts. I'm not going to want to deal with dealing with other websites who refuse to moderate their instance, and who refuse to take out their trash. Suggesting that people should be forced to is how you ensure that people don't run ActivityPub enabled websites at all, and you reduce the fediverse to a semi-centralized family of, like, 5 big websites, and a thousand Nazi troll instances that become too much work to deal with.