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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.

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https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-report-114/

Nunya Bidness 8mo ago

Fediverse was a mess from the outset.

#nostrFTW

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Rich Nost 8mo ago

Isn't it actually worse than that? If some boutique masto admin decides they don't like you or your content, can't they just stomp your account, killing the portability of your social graph, too?

Nunya Bidness 8mo ago

I think of the whole thing as sharding.

RalfWausE 8mo ago

Yes, it's entirely possible. The thing is: While yes, the fediverse is "federated", you are still using an account on someone else's server and are entirely dependent on them "playing by the rules".