Fediverse Discussion Amid Collapse of Social Control Media Giants
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Some thoughts on organizations running their own Fediverse instance
One of the current ideas floating around the Fediverse is that (significant) organizations should be encouraged to run their own instances, in part to implicitly verify the identities of people posting from them (one writeup of this idea is here). If someone with the name of my MP posts from the official instance run by the Canadian (federal) Parliament, for example, I can be pretty sure of what I'm getting. In related news, MIT has stood up their own Fediverse instance. This got me thinking some thoughts over on the Fediverse, which I'll repeat here in slightly edited form with some annotations.
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How does Fediverse work?
But we don’t want to talk about the technical stuff behind the Fediverse. What do you want to talk about is simply how Fediverse and/or Mastodon work. Mastodon is just a part of Fediverse. Fediverse is a word built by mixing the two words of federation and universe.
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Is the fediverse about to get Fryed? (Or, “Why every toot is also a potential denial of service attack”)
In fact, this should be built right into the software. Mastodon instances should be limited from growing beyond a certain size. Instances that are already too large should have ways of encouraging people to migrate to smaller ones.
As a community we should approach large instances as tumours: how do we break them up so they are no longer a threat to the organism?