For a Universal Declaration on Fediverse Rights, or: At the Core of the Threads-Debate lies a deeper problem: how can the Fediverse grow without loosing its soul in the process?
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To Federate or not to Federate: is this the Fediverse’s Don’t be Evil-Moment or its own Liberation through transfiguration? And why is the current political Left in wide parts unable to answer this…
  • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
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    3 months ago

    In principle, yes. But if 99% of users are on one server, then that server has a disproportional amount of power in the network. If they choose to defederate another server, it’s essentially a death sentence.

      • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Most users would probably jump away from that server in that case, so in all likelihood they would.

    • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      That makes absolutely no sense. If they choose to defederate then it is no different than if they had never federated in the first place, which is what it sounds like you want.

      • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        It is different because if we defederate in the first place, then perhaps 99% of users would not congregate in that server.

        • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          What server are you referring to? Threads? They already have 99.9%. No one is going to join Threads because it’s “the biggest server”, they’re going to join because they’ve never heard of the Fediverse and want to chat with their friends and follow businesses and personalities.

          If they know what the Fediverse is, they’re not going to join Threads, because no fully-informed person is going to make that decision.