Multiple people on here have already tried to tell them.

What are you calling centralized here?

The spammers are using a limited number of scraped Fediverse actors, which also included a handful of Lemmy communities.

If you weren’t part of that list, you were mostly safe.

Search engines currently struggle with the concept of federated posts. My guess is that instead of finding a post’s home instance, they accept the first mirror of that post and discard copies from all other instances through deduplication.

Why care which browser they use?

What incentive would they have to betray your trust?

But the AT Protocol is open, isn’t it? Anyone can go ahead and create non proprietary software that lives on this protocol.

I understand your concerns regarding Bluesky specifically being proprietary, but as soon as someone creates an open source atproto server, you will be able to interact with Bluesky users without using proprietary software. It will require Bluesky to federate with instances using such software of course.

How would Bluesky be falling to enshittification if it can be federated just like Mastodon?

Everyone always says Mastodon can’t be ruined this way because you can always move to another Mastodon instance. Wouldn’t that also be the case for Bluesky, once federation kicks off?

Where does it say that you need one?

Since both services store your notes as markdown files on your disk, you can just move your files over. When spinning up a docker container, you likely defined a path for your SilverBullet space. If not, try creating a note and see if you can find it on your disk.

Not quite.

A project’s repo would still be in one centralized location, like gitlab.com. But you’d no longer need an account on gitlab.com to make a pull request.

The aftermath of the conflict you referred to in your previous comment.

Waiting for a conflict to arise just leaves you with a fractured community in the aftermath.

There are legitimate reasons for creating an entire instance for a specific fandom. Independence from other instances and their federation decisions is a big one.

What the person using those links does not realize is that a Creative Commons license relaxes restrictions rather than imposing additional ones.

Everything you create is already protected by copyright by default. If you publish an essay and don’t append any license to it, nobody may republish or remix that essay without your permission, unless an exception like fair use applies. The exact restrictions will depend on local laws.

By using a Creative Commons license, you choose to forgo some of those copyright protections. Thus the comments of the person you replied to are actually less protected than yours or mine.

I don’t understand this sentiment. We know that, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t get excited over it.

I can understand defederating from Threads, but transitive defederation is bordering on insanity.

This will do nothing but exert peer pressure onto instances that wish to remain impartial. Transitive defederation will play right into Meta’s hands by fragmenting the Fediverse further.

It’s not relevant to this post. That shouldn’t be hard to understand.

Everything up until your actual suggestion is not on-topic for this community, IMO. This feels like a post that was created mainly to vent about the run-in you mentioned.

Your suggestions will run into the same issues as democracy in the real world, and then some. For one, you’d need to ensure that each human person only gets to cast a vote once, and not multiple times through alt accounts.

Additionally, not everyone might be interested in the mod election campaigns that such a system will undoubtedly incur, but for the purpose of upholding democracy they’d have to be.

Oh hi! Small world, eh?