We’re twenty years in to this world wide web thing. Today, I myself celebrate twelve years of writing this blog. And yet those of us who love this medium, who’ve had our lives changed by the possibility of publishing our words to the world without having to ask

This holds for any website, therefore it holds for federated instances too. I wish to stress that if one instance spreads content which is deemed harmful, the responsibility is instance-side and the rest of the fediverse may act accordingly.

EDIT: I distance myself from the positive comments about Stack Exchange.

  • Maya
    5·
    4 years ago

    It’s kind of interesting that Stack Exchange is held up as a positive example. 2011 is a trip…

    My suspicion is that nothing good can scale. I like federated software because it attempts to bridge the small to the large. It’d be fun to write a piece basically examining the principles of Darius Kazemi’s experience forking Mastodon as they might apply to Lemmy. While the experience sought is very different, I think he’s hit upon some real insight as to how social media can be valuable.