"Mastodon better than expected.." on HN
That's it's raison d'etre. Without federation, there is no fediverse, and without a fediverse it's just another Twitter clone.
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#SocialHub community forum has the #ActivityPub plugin enabled yet 1st with full open, untweaked federation settings. Accessiblity for any #fedizen got a real boost. Yet with big negative impact on 'sense of community'. It's up for debate whether adding #fediverse support in early stages of dev was a wise move. And whether the result is net negative or positive (I think the former).
Any fedi dev: Think hard what it means to be federated. It's more than just 'plugging in'. Consider the #SX side.
@yala currently there is less of an issue than previously. But the federation for a long while added everything with a hashtag of #ActivityPub, and this added a 'spout' of all kinds of stuff from across the fedi. Random topics and context collapse followed. Furthermore there are no titles in #microblogging 'sticky notes', so excerpts from first line of text were shown, making it even more messy.
Effectively #SocialHub topic list became like a link aggregator for sticky note excerpts.
@smallcircles
We had really good experiences with two federated categories following each other. It might seem this depends a lot on the use case and how it's set up.
Waiting for private category federation to get crackin'.