From what I read on discussions on the matter, apparently the resources needed for instances to talk to individual ones is proportionally much higher.

However, I’d argue most people using the fediverse seem to be fine using medium to large instances, so the impact seems to be a diminishing one.

And agreed it’s a form of independence. Besides and extrapolating from owning what you share, censorship, if/when it happens, at most is done at federation level, not on instance level, meaning it’s much harder for someone to sabotage the single-user for wrongthink or a potential (and if the user is honest, accidental) fuck up.

To consider the possibility is part of accepting that it will happen, making it much easier to actually happen. First, I think, people should pressure so it doesn’t get to pass, as they seem to be against it. If the worst scenario does come, then people can consider what’s the least bad route of actions.

Every story has 3 sides, as the saying goes. Dunno what was the original reason to this tug of war between the two, the OP and the admin, but if the OP’s side is the one closer to the truth, and adding your comment, it reminds me of a few instances where administration has all the devices to become power-tripping, just waiting for the right catalyst.

And about “the largest Mastodon instance”, if it is the one I’m thinking about, not the first user I see someone being banned from there for diverging opinions.

Luckily, at least, decentralized governance allows finding alternatives, or even making them. And widespread adoption of RSS allows following the contents of communities run by power-tripping folks, if the person is willing to endure that.

Though, using the Mastodon example, always worth keeping an eye for instances that are growing too much, for then you have to bend to their visions to avoid ostracization, and by extension such instances weakening decentralization, free speech, and all that.

Archived ycombinator link: https://archive.ph/y43fV

The limit of lies is the perception of truth, and Macron’s proposal sounds like “people are noticing, so we better formalize it in a way it’s not as damaging to us”.

However, formal exposition of a project that works only hidden means its effectiveness is so hindered it’s likely to be thrown away soon.

So I wonder if this is a repositioning of Macron, or just being more of the same.

There’s also a community for it here on the fediverse, to those interested: !Ollama@lemmy.world

Also, from my tests, it works decent enough even on Android’s Termux, though a powerful phone seems needed.

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Late response, since a vida acontece, but there’s Piefed which I had noted down to help with but haven’t got the chance to do it myself yet: https://translate.piefed.social/projects/piefed/main-web-app/

Thanks too! Was in a similar situation as B0rax.

If it still turns on, it still has an use!

So site will remain mostly the beautiful jank it always was. Fantastic!

But some points of the announcement seem dubious. At least I got the impression they’re not ditching all the ideas of the beta, but it didn’t sound clear to me what they’d keep.

#AllOrangeCatsShareOneBrainCell #BlurryPicturesOfCats 🤭

The Harry Potter franchise is pretty expansive, so even if this next series is a major flop, I have my doubts the series will alone be able to burn all the goodwill in the franchise, leaving plenty still to be discussed.

Also, I like the idea of forums focused on specific niches, but having seen isolated ones multiple times shrink into irrelevance, being federated should help give it a bigger life span. Also wouldn’t be the first focused instance I see around. So on this point, I also defend the creation of a Harry Potter instance.

Just don’t know how protective the companies involved with the Harry Potter brand are towards it, so hopefully a site that presents itself as purely a discussion forum among fans won’t be stepping in anyone’s toes.

And about the fediverse not liking Harry Potter as someone commented, such perception feels awfully like centralization, in this case on ideas. So another reason to have a focused forum, so people may be more comfortable enjoying and discussing what they want, instead of falling into a silence spiral to not be the perceived majority’s enemies. And as you proposed, those that don’t like are free to block/defederate.

And about software, might I suggest an hybrid one, so people on both threadiverse and microblog platforms may be able to interact? Dunno how Piefed fares on that front (I keep forgetting to check) and Lemmy is kinda isolated by their design philosophy.

But back on creating an instance, now that at the end I reread the other comments, it’s a task, requiring resources, interest and time someone may not have. So if asking for one to be created by others is likely be a short-lived idea.

So good luck on finding anyone then.

Or maybe also you’d be interested in reading the responses to a question I made in a self-hosting community, if you want to do it yourself but don’t know where to start:
https://thebrainbin.org/m/selfhosted@lemmy.world/t/1513112/What-to-study-to-be-able-to-host-a-site

Only upside I can think of federating with Threads is to try to pull people into the wider fediverse, but indeed it’s a major risk that Facebook the company’s grip is stronger in case people don’t defederate.

Closest in other engines afaik are tags, but they are only an <include> type of filter, not also an <exclude> one.

@speedythefirst@lemmy.zip AT Protocol uses relays instead of direct communication - think two devices talking over bluetooth (ActivityPub) vs talking through the router on a same network (AT Protocol).

AT Protocol is better for content distribution, but its relay system is more centralized. ActivityPub is better for decentralization, but contents and to a smaller degree servers need to be found first.

Also there is the Nostrr protocol, but to my knowledge it’s dwarfed in comparison to ActivityPub and AT Protocol, is also relay-based, and the only instance that uses it that I know is minds.com, which also uses ActivityPub.

And talking about instances with multiple protocols used, alternative to bridging through Bridgy Fed, Wafrn uses both AT Protocol and ActivityPub natively, and NeoDB (for cross-posting afaik) and Friendica (for normal use) allow connecting to your Bluesky account if you have one.

Mbin has mixed feeds (microblogging + threads), is very responsive to Ublock Origin so I can simulate a better post hiding than Lemmy or Mastodon’s, its RSS picks both threads and microblog posts from communities (but thankfully not comments from users, unlike Misskey), and UI has very little visual noise.

Yes, though because primary sources don’t live much in such places when they pose a risk to a given regime.

Iirc, in Russia, companies must have participation of the state. And Russia inherited laws from the Soviet Union, has had autocratic tendencies even between the opening of the SU and Putin coming to power, and has worked with other dictatorships such as China, Cuba and Venezuela’s. So it’s easy to assume and expect there’s state-issued spyware to monitor users.

Well, if it’s likely to be mandatory wherever you are, may as well take the initiative and install it to test, instead of asking what, by your comment, sounds like a rhetorical question or an ad.