I guess I’m kind of asking / supposing, but I wouldn’t be surprised at all if lemmy / activitypub doesn’t really work that way.

As in, posts to feddit.uk are stored on feddit.uk. If you read a thread from sh.itjust.works/c/[email protected] then sh.itjust.works server will pull it down from feddit.uk and show you the post. It may even cache a copy of the post to show it to another user, but that’s not the same as backing up the post.

What data do you want backed up though ?

That’s not how the fediverse works.

… that’s why I included the second sentence?

I think you upset the americans 😆

Meta is a threat to the platform though.

The fediverse is an emerging threat. It’s not ready yet, but it’s on the right trajectory. Every time there’s angst on some other platform, the fediverse get’s a bump. Fediverse is not a real competitor yet, perhaps it never will be, but for meta it’s sensible to establish a presence here in the short term, because it may be much more difficult later.

People have been writing about this ad nauseum. It’s the embrace, extend, extinguish strategy. Join fediverse, extend the spec with so that not all clients are compatible with all features, repeat as necessary until everyone is using your client, finally drop compatibility with other clients.

created an account on a popular well federated server

Why would they do that?

They would create a custom instance.

Surely you’re aware of the embrace, extend, extinguish corporate strategy.

People only get to decide what they want from their platform until facebook starts extending the spec. Then your client will become incompatible with some posts, and so on and so forth.

In summary, it’s a threat to the platform itself.

Do you think any users would populate a place that’s over-run with trash?

If there are, would they be the type of users who would populate communities you would feel comfortable in?

Sure, but where is the line between spam and threads content? If the content a community produces is heavily manipulated, isn’t that undesirable for all the same reasons as spam ?

If there was a bot that just flooded All with far right talking points, do you think admins ought to block that or leave it to the users?

What if it was far right mixed in with cat memes?

What if it started more slowly like a few posts an hour and then ramped up over 6 months to be 1000s of posts per hour?

Exactly, I hereby decide that I would like to ignore corporate efforts to undermine this burgeoning new platform. I furthermore reserve the right to complain about the loss of said platform in future years by claiming that it’s everyone elses fault for allowing corporate encroachment.

No.

Developers of opensource software have been coordinating around complex problems for decades. I don’t think lemmy or mastodon can contribute much to that.

I don’t see why the fediverse needs to be co-opted into any particular political ideology. All political interests are free to create their own instances and / or use the fediverse as they wish. I don’t think it’s any more suited to left-libertarian than any other ideology.

I also don’t see the fediverse being a “new landscape”. The majority of people will always gravitate towards well funded corporate platforms. I would be really happy with the fediverse staying as it is now, I mean of course everyone is free to join but if it became the new normal then I’d have to find somewhere else to spend my time.

This is antithetical to the decentralised web. The primary feature is that there’s no centralised control. Create your own askhistorians instance.

I think it’s "how dare you create open source software which is free for everyone to use as they wish without implementing "

An allusion to the time honored tradition of whining at volunteer developers of open source software.