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Could we get official word on what Kbin's stance is towards federating with Meta? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I would like to know if I can feel safe here, or if I should pack it up and start looking elsewhere sooner rather than later.

If the kbin staff have already made there intentions clear, please let me know.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I find the other demands going around even scarier to be honest.
"I don't want to federate with meta, but I also don't want to federate with anyone else who does federate with meta"

It's so terrifying that there are whole instances that are now attempting to dictate who the rest of the fediverse is allowed to federate with. And frankly I think it's a downward spiral if that is allowed. Because if they do it once, they will do it again and again.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

"I don't want to federate with meta, but I also don't want to federate with anyone else who does federate with meta"

It's so terrifying that there are whole instances that are now attempting to dictate who the rest of the fediverse is allowed to federate with. And frankly I think it's a downward spiral if that is allowed. Because if they do it once, they will do it again and again.

How is that dictating anything? A given instance has no inherent right to be federated with, it's the entire point of federation. The folks who bizarrely want meta getting their claws into the fediverse expecting everyone else to go along feels much more dictatorial to me.

In one example the objecting instances do nothing more than refuse to interact with the instances they choose not to interact with.

In the other example, a smaller number of instances want to tell the entire rest of the fediverse that they MUST interact with them.

No.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Don't believe for a second that everyone wants to federate with everyone. The fediverse will be a collection of federation not wanting to federate with others, naturally. No gafam will ever federate with anyone.

Take language for example, why would a french instance federate with a polish instance?

Federating means keeping focus, you federate with instances with whom you have common interests. If we don't keep focus then we will end up with the reddit problem and the race to popular meme content.