I guess you could consider it condescending but you did not ask like how but why. Why ride a bike. Why own a dog. why get out of bed. Why questions are something that really is up to the individual.
Because they can?
Because they want to learn?
Because they haven’t found an instance they liked?
Because they want to create an instance for some specific interest and existing instances aren’t the right fit?
Because they want a private instance for their family/friends?
Because they want to use it a bit like a client, deciding which instances they interface with?
Because virtually every instance is simply someone hosting their own and letting random strangers use it.
because they want to be in charge instead of being at the mercy of someone else?
like I just got a 3-day ban from some instance or community because something I said made the owner mad, and I imagine if I ran my own instance and community I wouldn’t have been banned 😄
The Fediverse consist of many separate servers, running different software. But they all communicate, they’re a federation of different social networks. This way people on a Mastodon instance can comment on threads on a Lemmy instance, etc.
But similar to banning offending users from communities, there are protections built into the federation. If, for whatever reason, an admin of instance A decides that a specific instance B should not be part of their Fediverse, they can defederate it. Meaning their instance A will no longer pull data (communities, posts, comments) from that instance B. They’re effectively muting the offending instance B from their side.
Users from that instance B can still post/comment on instance A, but users of instance A will never know, as instance A never requests that data. Users on other instances, federated with both instances, will still see it and can decide for themselves of they want to keep it that way.
So if you insist on being a twat on the internet people may stop listening.
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