Tech Divide: Instance Autonomy vs. Branded 'Networks of Networks' Shapes Decentralized Web Future

@scottjenson There's "communities" for nearly everything on the #Fediverse. It is a strange misconception that a server software like Mastodon was something like a centralized #server #instance that was required to "allow" for anything, or could "prohibit" it, for everybody. On the Fediverse, your server instance can allow or prohibit anything, just like any other instance. When your topic is hated on most other instances, there might be good reasons for that, though. Still you can even run your very own instance fully dedicated to ShittyTopic™. It's just that nobody is obliged to listen to you, or to say friendly things about it, or to never block your instance. @Gargron

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@Elilol yes! fedi is fantastic :3 i also encourage you if you haven't already to look into some of the other types of #fediverse servers out there. some i can recommend for #nsfw posting: - #Mastodon: of course i have to rep my home server girlcock.club, but kinkycats.org also seems to be pretty popular - #Misskey and its forks: Misskey is really neat, a bit more featureful than Mastodon. desperatesluts.online runs a slightly modified version of #Sharkey, a popular Misskey fork.

Discover The Fediverse: Together United Understand how businesses have shifted and how the community united together will protect user rights by using Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). www.adamsdesk.com/posts/discover-fediverse-together-united/ @powerampache @davx5app @moememos @k9mail #blog #FollowFriday #Fediverse #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS

RE: https://mastodon.social/@HolosSocial/116190468800307674 We accepted these constraints for #Fedilab: donation links removed, Mastodon account registration disabled, and #PeerTube search results filtered. The rules are enforced by a bot: you receive a screenshot of what was flagged, and you either fix it or your app is rejected. We will not accept the same for #HolosSocial. Asking a #Fediverse app to moderate its content is like asking a browser to moderate the web.

"#Mastodon’s current leadership is trying to move away from [#centralization at Mastodon.social]. In this newer model, the server boundary becomes a social boundary, and your experience of Mastodon is supposed to be shaped by the community you joined rather than just by who you follow across the wider network. Instead of one network with distributed infrastructure, it is a network of networks where each node has meaningful social coherence. #Newsmast, a UK-based organization building ActivityPub infrastructure for publishers and communities, is pushing this further by creating branded apps on top of individual server #communities that combine #community feeds with a publisher’s content. The logical conclusion of their approach is one app per community, with federation as the connective tissue between them." https://connectedplaces.online/where-does-community-live/