I know all of us would be happy to have more people to interact with on content. The idea of limited federation came up a bit recently too, and I mentioned that we are open to it.

The reasons we haven’t been federated have nothing to do with not wanting to open up to the rest of the Fediverse, and everything to do with the drama that comes with federation. Specifically, we don’t want the dodgy porn that other instances get bombed with, the endless political fanatics who poison every topic, the admins who want to impose their views on you, the constant screeching and demonizing, etc. The overwhelming majority of all Fediverse content is hot garbage, and having to store that bloat for nothing is also a huge turn-off.

On the other hand, I think we can all agree that it would be nice to have more people to talk shit with, and federation is an easy(er) way to achieve that. Our current thinking is that we’d like to selectively federate with instances who tick off a few requirements:

  1. No porn or loli shit or pedo apologists or anything like that
  2. They require registration applications (this one’s about spam)
  3. Their admins aren’t missing in action (also about spam)
  4. Their rules don’t sound like something Stalin would’ve come up with

The requirements above are just a way of me saying I don’t have time to deal with this shit if it became high drama and high maintenance, so I’d like to avoid that if possible. I really don’t care about political lean or anything like that.

Alice compiled an initial list:

What are your thoughts?

Edit: Updated list

  • splinterOPMAEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Hopefully we’ll get there, I think this is just the natural state of having a few hundred active people, but getting there is hard.

    Hopefully federation will generate more engagement on stuff you do post at least in the meantime.