Could someone explain a hypothetical.
If Vance were to join mastodon by comparison, assuming a similar desire to block from user, how else might this play out based on the way that federation works within an Activity Pub context.
Just trying to understand the practical nature of the two protocols as applied to this case.
Maybe rather than talking about federating everything on the web, we need to talk about federating what, and how.
In an interview with Simon Vansintjan from Mirlo, he talks about anyone with an account on their platform can create a music blog. It would be great to be able to subscribe to one of those blogs via ActivityPub, and get a notification in nu fediverse account whenever they publish new post.
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https://www.europesays.com/2157609/ Cross-Country National Team Selections for Finland, France and Switzerland #federation #finland #FIS #Ski #snowboard #Suomi #uutiset #WinterSports
→ Linux Foundation Announces the #FAIR Package Manager Project for #OpenSource Content Management System Stability
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-the-fair-package-manager-project-for-open-source-content-management-system-stability
“Features of [the] project include:
- Eliminates reliance on any single #source […] enabling #federation across the ecosystem […]
- Advances #WordPress’s alignment towards #GDPR to improve #privacy and security […]
- Brings together a fragmented #ecosystem […]
- Builds #security into the supply chain, including improved cryptographic security measures […]”
I love #Mastodon for so many reasons. But when it comes to race politics, whew boy. It's clear many still view yourselves as the default. It's like a stench. And POCs can smell it a mile away. That's why there aren't many here.
Mastodon is uniquely uniformed on race but is the most confident of the contrary. It's a dangerous mix. Race is our achilles heel. A small group of bad actors could tear this place apart in a weekend
This #federation will never survive unless we fix this
@itsfoss I believe one can make a #PeerTube server part of another server's #federation. PeerTube's federation feature, enabled by the #ActivityPub, allowing instances to display videos from other servers alongside their own content, so by creating for example a video.itsfoss.com server, offering a central point for #FOSS videos, you could become a go to server for this kind of videos, while people remain independent and you likely keep your bandwidth acceptable.
@alisynthesis If I was being deliberately arsey I'd suggest that China and North Korea are pretty good at this #intranet approach :) BUT, it's at least a basis. Back in olden times, the #Internet used to basically be a network of intranets and Special Interest Groups (SIGs) - I think that's why us old timey people who grew up that way hate the modern thing-we-have so much. I guess in a way #Federation is going back that way somewhat.
But I feel I should slightly defend #Cloudflare even though they didn't give me the policy job after FOURTEEN interviews and being told that the last one was just a formality.
They are not 100% faceless, they do at the very least have a lot of free plans for normal people and they have a lot of extra freebies for journalists and news organisations.
#Russia illegally took 30 more orphans from the occupied Luhansk region.
The children were transferred to Russian families in other regions of the Russian #Federation, according to collaborator Inna Schwenk, who calls herself the “ombudsman for children's rights” in the so-called “LPR.”
Bluesky does not federate correctly. As a consequence I cannot see the post he's referring to, and I cannot reply to him.
I don't like federating with BlueSky with a required app facilitating every interaction. It seems like a man-in-the-middle attack you agree to.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rgzw2gfpyanm42hqkxvewh7l/post/3lqjk6kix422r
https://www.europesays.com/2119321/ New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell is Canada for conference #1st #BigCityMayors #border #Canadá #CanadianMunicipalities #caucus #Conference #conversation #EconomicChallenge #federation #Louisiana #May #MayorCantrell #NewOrleans #Ottawa #picture #side #SocialMedium
https://www.europesays.com/2115629/ France, USA, Italy, and Germany also announce national teams ahead of Olympic season #federation #FIS #italy #Ski #snowboard #WinterSports
Has the US Director of National Intelligence finally seen the light?!
#TulsiGabbard is a unique person who was included in the list of those who spread #Russian propaganda and support the criminal actions of the Russian #Federation in #Ukraine.
Mastodon is decentralised.
I have 45,465 followers on my single-person instance.
Of those, 13,180 are on mastodon.social.
So roughly 30% of my followers are on mastodon.social.
Also, I follow 11,392 people.
Of those, 1,864 are on mastodon.social.
If mastodon.social blocks my instance, I lose 30% of my followers and I’m forced to stop following 1,864 people.
If my instance blocks mastodon.social, I lose 30% of my followers and I’m forced to stop following 1,864 people.
Mastodon is decentralised.
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So, not just Decentralized Social (DeSo), but instead —
Decentralized Social (DeSo), Federated Social (FeSo), Localized Social (LoSo)
The goal is 'social' that is simultaneously — 'Decentralized', 'Federated', and 'Localized', all at the same time.
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Federation is the word we use to describe that act of bringing together and connecting these separate Decentralized, Localized communities.
This is where protocols such as ActivityPub, ActivityStreams, etc come into play.
Federation is a voluntary choice.
But, so too is Defederation, if desired.
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Localization is important to make Decentralization work and last.
Decentralization without Localization can be susceptible to Centralization.
Decentralization with Localization spreads out decision-making and power to groups (that could consistent of a single individual) with a personal stake in the outcome of the decision-making.
Which creates incentives that lead to greater resilience to Centralization.
