@tchambers i’m in the mood to start following more social web (read: fediverse/mastodon/etc.) groups here. i know of @socialmedianews and @spreadmastodon. do you have any suggestions?
@moderation i’ve heard that the reason Mastodon doesn’t let you migrate posts between instances is because it would be a moderation nightmare. do we know this is true? (both that that is the reason why AND that it would be a moderation nightmare?)
@spreadmastodon we take it as dogma that decentralizing social media is a net positive for the world. but, i wonder: to what end is decentralizing good for?
SM / #Mastodon power of decentralization diffuses in the context of "community" barriers to access.
Example: NPO's need #fediverse templates and WYSIWYG equivalence within their TLD web presence ecology. Web site, Ecommerce, Blog, Federtation...
What if: #Wordpress / #Automatic delivered a Mastodon instance as a adjunct service or plugin to subscribed services. (Seems like they're going in this direction with #activitypub integration... just guessing.)
i’ve been thinking about #ActivityPub and am going to use this as the start of an ad hoc thread about identity and account portability.
here’s where i think i’ll land:
1️⃣ the Conventional Wisdom conflates #Mastodon features with AP.
2️⃣ the Conventional Wisdom is that AP guarantees a #RightToExit, which it does not.
3️⃣🔥 and a hot take, as a treat: #ATProtocol is currently doing better work building the system that most AP advocates think is being built here.
@austinha You are of course right that "Right to Exit is not an intrinsic feature of AP."
However, perhaps that's an unfairly high bar? Right to Exit can be guaranteed to users legally, much more than it is today (when it's sorta-kinda-maybe guaranteed by the Mastodon Server Covenant). But I can imagine a world where e.g. server admins put up collateral against their promise to uphold Right to Exit. That raises all sorts of issues/questions, but it's not that much of a stretch IMO.
@davidslifka it’s possible that it is an unfairly high bar, but either way, there is a mismatch about what AP guarantees vs. what Mastodon does. if Mastodon’s BDFL, for argument’s sake, starts making decisions that you vehemently disagree with, a lot of people are in for a frustrating time & the lessons of closed social have not been learned.