You can be proactive or reactive.
To me, being proactive is actively working to increase your footprint on the fediverse by following and interacting with people from different instances. Every server you interact with is a little more health for the fediverse and a little less centralization, and every time someone on a big instance sees something interesting from a person posting from a smaller instance that's an advertisement for decentralization.
Being reactive is to just defederate when things get scary. In that case, the people are stuck in their echo chamber and don't realize there's a world out there that might be really cool, and it'll only drive more centralization prior to an instance shutting off federation.
Unfortunately being reactive is easier than being proactive, so a lot of people prefer that even if the long term outlook is worsened by it.
To me, being proactive is actively working to increase your footprint on the fediverse by following and interacting with people from different instances. Every server you interact with is a little more health for the fediverse and a little less centralization, and every time someone on a big instance sees something interesting from a person posting from a smaller instance that's an advertisement for decentralization.
Being reactive is to just defederate when things get scary. In that case, the people are stuck in their echo chamber and don't realize there's a world out there that might be really cool, and it'll only drive more centralization prior to an instance shutting off federation.
Unfortunately being reactive is easier than being proactive, so a lot of people prefer that even if the long term outlook is worsened by it.
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I feel like it's not necessarily that hard to get on the fediverse.
I did it with 3 completely different activitypub enabled services and I've got an IQ of like 87. There's some great write-ups out there.
I did it with 3 completely different activitypub enabled services and I've got an IQ of like 87. There's some great write-ups out there.
According to the-federation.info there are 40,000 activitypub compatible nodes out there. Thats a lot of nodes not controlled by anyone in particular.
There are already big instances that defederate, namely gab and truth social. Just means they isolate themselves and everyone else keeps rolling along.
I think everyone's built something really amazing together, And no one person can break it at this point.
There are already big instances that defederate, namely gab and truth social. Just means they isolate themselves and everyone else keeps rolling along.
I think everyone's built something really amazing together, And no one person can break it at this point.