Volpeon An amusing update: the admin of mas.to has also shadow-banned my personal account from that instance.Someone recently doubted my assertion that fedi instance admins will weaponize blocks for petty reasons. So much for that
Purple has become the em dash of web design
[referring to how AI tends to use em dashes in its output, except it's about AI-generated websites]
I don't want to have to run a PDS too.Okay?
I don't want to have to explain to people that PDSes are a thing separate from instances and you have to worry about BOTH of them.Somehow it works for people to handle an email account and all the platforms they're part of.
We DON'T need to kill instances.This idea I have presented here is literally an effort to preserve instances as they are while solving the downsides they come with.
Let's not turn fedi into Reddit.What?
Throughout your entire "fedi needs to be more like bluesky!" thread I was internally yelling "have you not heard of alts?????"No, fedi doesn't need to be more like Bluesky. It needs to decouple the 2 roles instances play here as 1. a gateway and 2. a social space. ATProto just happens to do that and I believe fedi could, and should, learn some lessons from it.
alts are a thing!! there's nothing wrong with making multiple accounts!Yeah right, we can see how well this works here.
and yes you're screwed if your instance dies but the fix for that is better migration tools.If your instance suddenly goes offline then your data is gone and you're fucked. You can't migrate data that has vanished off the face of earth. It has to live somewhere else, such as an identity server. "Then let people export their data", you may say. Sure, why not, but do you seriously think it would be a good solution to ask people to export their data every week manually? And go through a weird export/import process when an identity server could turn it into a quick and easy process?
I don't see the benefit.Because you refuse to think about what I've said and instead construct a reality where my ideas have been implemented in the worst possible way and proceed to get mad at this shitty reality that you yourself have constructed.
And I /really/ don't like the "let's kill instances as ocmmunities" mindset. Having a community is the /whole point/ of an instance (unless you do like us and selfhost). It's a /good/ thing that there isn't a second set of Platform Mods (or in your case, PDS Mods) waiting to swoop down and ban you for being unpalatable to the normies or whatever.I don't know why many people on here believe that efforts to decouple the roles of instances as gateway and social space in one package will destroy communities, or will destroy moderation, etc; especially when you consider that there are plenty of situations where this has been the case for a long time and it's fine.