Joël de Bruijn

Loosing vast amounts of historical posts or would I say “cultural heritage” is a shame but I couldn’t trust the party hosting it …

So with Twitter I did the same, 13 years of tweets. Even took a one month payment on a bulk erase / unlike / unfollow / unretweet service to get it done in a reasonable amount of time.

To illustrate even more: I follow a Lemmy privacy “group” with an Akkoma account.

True! One of the main building blocks, sadly.

Trusting other peoples identification and authorizattion isnt about sharing accounts and passwords. If user A of server X want to log in at server Y, server Y asks server X if it knows this user A. If so server X handles the password/mfa check and just gives the green light to server Y.

Maybe good old blogosphere with comments pingbacks and pubsubhub(?) was a sort of simpler proto version of the fediverse.

Sorry but I fail to understand the relation between your question and the additional text.

Are the bulletpoints requirements for a less over-engineered attempt ?

Or are they examples of the current situation?

And just software without protocol seems. … oversimplification.

AFAIK its “by design” meaning an inherent property of the fediverse.

If I dont follow someone or my instance isnt federated with those of other followers we cant see each others comments or likes etc

Companies small and big are used to have hosting managed for them. Websites cms-es etc, why would selecting a Mastodon provider be any different?

As for defederation:

• Would I defederate/block brands I dont like preemptively? Only a few. Would I care if CocaCola has an instance? No.
• Would mastodon.social defederate Nike? Cant speak for Eugen but I dont think they have a defederate policy against brands?
• Would FediBlock maintain a branding blocklist just for the sake of being a brand instance? Doubt it.

Depends on your definition of tolerant.

If it implies adtech and trackers, then no. If it implies joining a random instance and spamming it, then no.

But any organisation is free to manage their own fediverse instance or get managed Mastodon hosting on their own domain.

So fans of their products can follow them and their webcare team can respond to questions.

The big deal is I help others make money of me without my consent or getting something back in return. At least not usefull to me. On top of that they track the hell out of me with surveillance.

That would require blocking their servers/domains/IP adresses at the firewall level I guess? Preferably taken from a curated list like NextDNS does?

They correlate the content of your posts with all the other data they have about you, taken from every app (besides WhatsApp, FB etc) that has FB trackers built in. Then that aggregated profile will be used with AdTech to serve ads and make money. I personally object to Meta making money with my personal data without me using their products.