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0x1C3B00DA , 3 months ago to fediverse in Oh, Zot! Nomadic Identity is Coming to ActivityPub

Super disagree. A community at the protocol level can have just as much character as a community at the network level, but without most of the drawbacks. The "instance as community" idea was always a poor substitute for actual Groups. The community shouldn't be a server that users are bound to; it should be a Group that has access controls and private memberships (if desired). The moderators get all the same benefits of maintaining a limited community with their own rules, but users aren't beholden to petty drama via instance blocks or defederation.

0x1C3B00DA , 3 months ago to fediverse in Oh, Zot! Nomadic Identity is Coming to ActivityPub

It wouldn't change that, unless the moderators of those communities agreed to merge them by using the same cryptographic identity.

0x1C3B00DA , 4 months ago to fediverse in Content Nation Backlash Highlights Mastodon's Toxicity

I think you missed a key part of the article. Content Nation was not harvesting data from the fediverse; it was just federating. It was a new project that had just spun up and didn't have a full feature set yet, but other than those missing features it was a normal fediverse instance.

0x1C3B00DA , 4 months ago to fediverse in Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media

But public posts federating across the network isn't an "experience". It's the basic functionality of the network.

0x1C3B00DA , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to fediverse in Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media

for profit corporation being able to suck up your posts is probably what has many upset

They can already do that without a bridge. And it doesn't "suck up your posts". It works just like any other instance. They have to search for you and follow you. Then they receive posts going forward, but they won't get historical posts.

I personally would block such a service

Good! You can do that and that is a perfectly reasonable solution. That's part of what has ppl upset on the other side of this argument. All of this arguing and vitriol is happening over a service that you can block like any other fediverse actor.