Yes Mastodon is one instance, but it's the biggest one of their "twitter alternatives" which means it basically has monopoly power in the same way that twitter actually does. I'm using it as an example that what happened that made twitter and reddit bad is exactly the same thing happening to federated projects as well.
it basically has monopoly power in the same way that twitter actually does.
The whole point of federated sites is it’s literally impossible to have a monopoly on power. If you’re banned from 1 instance of a million people, there’s still thousands of instances with thousands of people each, and those instances can form a seamless mesh network using relays.
Whenever any single instance grows big enough it will get compromised in the exact same way "big tech" has. They will pressure smaller instances into falling in line or else they will have no reach.
What you are saying is basically to "hope the problem goes away on its own" which it never will. You need to get to the root of the issue of why things get compromised in the first place, and that's something you can't run away from forever.
Encouraging federation and for people to create their own instances isn’t just “hoping the problem will go away on its own” If this theoretical “big instance” scenario happens then people will simply move to other instances, and they still federate with each other so they’ll have just as much reach as the big one. Also I’d very much like you to elaborate of why exactly things get “compromised”
Yes Mastodon is one instance, but it's the biggest one of their "twitter alternatives" which means it basically has monopoly power in the same way that twitter actually does. I'm using it as an example that what happened that made twitter and reddit bad is exactly the same thing happening to federated projects as well.
The whole point of federated sites is it’s literally impossible to have a monopoly on power. If you’re banned from 1 instance of a million people, there’s still thousands of instances with thousands of people each, and those instances can form a seamless mesh network using relays.
Whenever any single instance grows big enough it will get compromised in the exact same way "big tech" has. They will pressure smaller instances into falling in line or else they will have no reach.
What you are saying is basically to "hope the problem goes away on its own" which it never will. You need to get to the root of the issue of why things get compromised in the first place, and that's something you can't run away from forever.
Encouraging federation and for people to create their own instances isn’t just “hoping the problem will go away on its own” If this theoretical “big instance” scenario happens then people will simply move to other instances, and they still federate with each other so they’ll have just as much reach as the big one. Also I’d very much like you to elaborate of why exactly things get “compromised”