[kwlug-disc] The Fediverse is complicated

[CrankyOldBugger]

Not to steer this conversation a little bit towards the oncoming
traffic...  But there's an interesting write-up on "why Mastodon may
succeed where others have failed" on IT World Canada:
https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/how-mastodon-may-succeed-as-the-twitter-alternative-where-others-have-failed/514395

(my favourite line is, "The big difference is that Twitter is owned and
controlled by an erratic billionaire. Mastodon has no owner.")


On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 11:59 PM Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> Quoting Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc (kwlug-disc at kwlug.org):
>
> > Of course admins *should* do these things, but if they don't know that
> > they should do these things then bad things happen. Sensible defaults
> > matter, and I am not convinced Mastodon got these right.
>
> Valid point.  OTOH, this isn't a first for complicated Internet
> services.  For example, do commodity distro packages for MTAs
> yet bother to provide meaningful antispam defences?  I haven't
> checked in ages, so actually don't know.  Have been simply assuming they
> don't, and build local config to implement local policy.
>
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