How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.

This blog post by Ploum, who was part of the original XMPP efforts long ago, describes how Google killed one great federated service, which shows why the Fediverse must not give Meta the chance

  • fiahEnglish
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    1 year ago

    how could we disallow them from joining?

    easy, identify them, never allow them to federate, block them in your firewall. Their instances won’t be anonymous

    • Spzi@lemmy.clickEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Ok, but you can only do that if they already joined the fediverse. I replied to “the powers that be must never be allowed to join the fediverse”. It’s also questionable if everyone will block them.

      • fiahEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        you know what I meant. Block them with extreme prejudice when they’re identified

        as for your second point, I assume there will be considerable pressure on all instances to follow suit or be defederated themselves. Don’t let their taint spread