But he’s sympathetic to the fear that some Mastodon users have about their posts showing up in places they didn’t anticipate.
If they're afraid of that, they joined the Fedi with a fundamental misunderstanding of how its supposed to work.
Chalk up another tally in the "Mastodon is confusing" column.
If they’re afraid of that, they joined the Fedi with a fundamental misunderstanding of how its supposed to work.
Yeah I was about to say, sure this isn't ActivityPub, but the specific implementation of the federation should be an impolementation detail the user should never care about. You joined a federated system. Your content gets federated. Period. Whether said federation happens through ActivityPub, AT, some bridge system or the Binford Content Disperser 5000XL+, that's really not the point of any discussions so long as the content does get federated.
The same exact people will whine about how Bluesky should have been using ActivityPub in one second, and bitch about how they don't want their content bridged over there in the next. It's almost as if they haven't thought this through.
Of course anyone is free to join an instance that blocks the bridge - that's part of the beauty of the whole system.
I have no idea what any of those words you just type meant...
It's not confusing. People just have different ideas about what the experience should be
It's not confusing.
The quotes were my indication that I don't personally find it confusing, but a lot of people obviously do or it wouldn't have that perception.
People just have different ideas about what the experience should be
If they have different ideas, it's because they are confused about how it works. There's only 1 way it's ever going to work. There's no debate to be had. No one gets to control the Fediverse, and no one needs permission to join it. That is inherent in it's fundamental design.
No they're not confused. I've seen a lot of these discussions on Mastodon. They don't misunderstand the tech, they're actively trying to curate a community.
Exactly. There's a core disagreement about whether making a public post means consenting to it being used for all purposes without consent (the multiple battles about consent-based search), but relatively few people are confused about whether bad actors will use it without consent.
Yeah the people throwing up their hands about ppl not understanding the tech are raging at a strawman.
It's also a BS argument that acceptable behaviour is only what the tech allows.
There’s a core disagreement about whether making a public post means consenting to it being used for all purposes without consent
Wouldn't this better be served by implementing per-post licensing, rather than mixing federation into it? After all, most of the real issue is people not accepting the fact that, regardless of federation, bad actors can do bad things with their content. Federation is not gonna change that, but at least licensing posts would allow you a legal avenue to pursue, which currently doesn't seem to exist.
If they're afraid of that, they joined the Fedi with a fundamental misunderstanding of how its supposed to work.
Chalk up another tally in the "Mastodon is confusing" column.
Yeah I was about to say, sure this isn't ActivityPub, but the specific implementation of the federation should be an impolementation detail the user should never care about. You joined a federated system. Your content gets federated. Period. Whether said federation happens through ActivityPub, AT, some bridge system or the Binford Content Disperser 5000XL+, that's really not the point of any discussions so long as the content does get federated.
The same exact people will whine about how Bluesky should have been using ActivityPub in one second, and bitch about how they don't want their content bridged over there in the next. It's almost as if they haven't thought this through.
Of course anyone is free to join an instance that blocks the bridge - that's part of the beauty of the whole system.
I have no idea what any of those words you just type meant...
It's not confusing. People just have different ideas about what the experience should be
The quotes were my indication that I don't personally find it confusing, but a lot of people obviously do or it wouldn't have that perception.
If they have different ideas, it's because they are confused about how it works. There's only 1 way it's ever going to work. There's no debate to be had. No one gets to control the Fediverse, and no one needs permission to join it. That is inherent in it's fundamental design.
No they're not confused. I've seen a lot of these discussions on Mastodon. They don't misunderstand the tech, they're actively trying to curate a community.
Exactly. There's a core disagreement about whether making a public post means consenting to it being used for all purposes without consent (the multiple battles about consent-based search), but relatively few people are confused about whether bad actors will use it without consent.
Yeah the people throwing up their hands about ppl not understanding the tech are raging at a strawman. It's also a BS argument that acceptable behaviour is only what the tech allows.
Wouldn't this better be served by implementing per-post licensing, rather than mixing federation into it? After all, most of the real issue is people not accepting the fact that, regardless of federation, bad actors can do bad things with their content. Federation is not gonna change that, but at least licensing posts would allow you a legal avenue to pursue, which currently doesn't seem to exist.
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But public posts federating across the network isn't an "experience". It's the basic functionality of the network.
I know.