The recent article on some fediverse drama clearly shows their model is fundamentally broken. Three quotes: "Freedom of association is one of the valuable features of the fediverse." "Servers defederating from each other can have significant impact on users, who suddenly can lose connections with their friends." "The users who are transferring from Fosstodon to another server will lose their posts; Mastodon does only transfer the social graph, and not posting history." So in this fediverse, their freedom of association comes at a price; either you give up your posting history and maintain your social graph, or you suffer damage to your social graph and maintain your posting history. Hopefully the video below explains why there is no reason for any of this, Nostr.

fediversereport.com

Fediverse Report – #114

Instance drama, with some reflection on how federation could be improved on the fediverse.

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Is there any thinking person who thinks Nostr isn't much better than the fediverse at this point? Or Bluesky? Or X? They just happen to have a little more network effect.

''neutral carrier'' is just another political position, and as such dependent on political conviction (for example expressed by law); protocols would do well not to depend on such things. View quoted note →