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That logo is trippy

Don’t be fooled into thinking /r/place is in any way a tool for free expression. If King Steven detects any threat to his Realm, he will use the full powers of the Crown against that threat.

The fediverse is a collection of community-owned, ad-free, decentralised, and privacy-centric social networks.

If thr Fediverse really is decentralized and open-source, then all of those other things are just suggestions. Nothing is stopping Meta (or me, or you) from launching an instance that has ads, investors, and sells all its data to people, whether that data comes from that instance or is discovered through federation.

But this will be a test of the protocols that underpin the Fediverse. I’ve read that the devs were extremely paranoid, and made sure that a bare minimum of personally identifying information is exposed between servers. The whole point of this is posting publically, after all, so some info needs to be exchanged. Meta already has access to our public posts just by scraping the instance, they don’t need to federate to do that. But is there anything more leaking out through Federation? We’re about to find out.

Nothing, really. Each instance is unique. Technically speaking, users will the same name on different instances are unique. You can always spin up your own instance and get whatever name you want. So it’s natural to want to register a username in multiple instances, to avoid confusion. Eventually there will have to be some way to tie identities across instances. Like a GPG key that can be validated on all accounts belonging to the same person.

I think this is ultimately where Meta is going with their Fediverse stuff. They will operate as a low-key ID verification service. Instances are saying they won’t federate with Threads right now, but as shitty as Meta and Instagram are they can guarantee that a Threads user is the same entity as an Intstagram user, which is currently more ID verification than exists right now in the Fediverse. Some instances may open themselves up to Threads in order to gain access to their userbase.