I can certainly tell you that Lemmy wont blindly follow what Mastodon is doing.
Good to hear.
They arent doing a good job for the Fediverse, for example they make zero effort to improve compatibility with other projects. Instead others are left to reverse engineer their federation logic.
Yeah. Plus, the sheer size of mastodon.social and the monoculture of Mastodon-based instances is just unhealthy. I wrote about it at length.
Wonderful!
This Tech Won’t Save Us podcast episode makes a very important point: any movement that does not have a structure and some form of leadership can easily be taken over by anyone willing and able to fill that kind of power vacuum.
Fediverse currently does not have a structure nor a form of leadership other than perhaps “whatever Mastodon is doing”. That’s problematic. I hope that we recognize this and do something to fix it, before that power vacuum gets filled by… someone we might not like.
I do see that the researchers involved in the OP link are Erin Kissane and Darius Kazemi. That’s fantastic. They are truly fedi old guard, deeply engaged, very knowledgeable, and generally wonderful human beings.
I don’t think it is anymore.
The vast majority of the instances in that screenshot have known jumps from 1~50 users to tens of thousands in less than a day. T
I think that’s taking it too far and jumping to conclusions. I cannot think of a single instance of an instance admin inflating their numbers with bot accounts or in any other artificial way, and I’ve been on fedi before it was called fedi.
This is almost certainly external bad actors taking advantage of captcha-less open signups.
e.g. Mastadon
*Mastodon
Same! But the beauty of it is that this effectively creates a competitive advantage for Fairphone. Fairphone is already compliant, while all other smartphone companies will have to develop this from ~scratch.
Fair point. They’re also pretty solid and tech-savvy in general.
Figures that Techdirt is the first (and only so far) place that I’ve seen to mention Lemmy/Kbin, and also not do a mess of it!
A whole different level of “blood money”. 👀
also inb4 “playing chicken” 👀
Or by random dice throws.
Huh. That’s surprising. I just joined https://fedia.io/m/cybersecurity from my Lemmy account on szmer.info.
Yup. You’re thinking of Tay.
Well, you mean when kbin.social re-joins federation. There are always going to be some Lemmy instances and some Kbin instances that do not federate with one another, and that’s fine.
I think throwing around vague but scary-sounding terms like “compromised” is a very bad idea.