• @CanadaPlus
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    2 years ago

    100%. The best instance to be on is actually your own. Failing that, a small one where the admins are easy to get a hold of.

    Big ones that offer extra goodies might become a thing ala Gmail, but I expect they will vet and monitor their users so nobody has to block them.

    Edit: Annoyingly, I can’t respond to Kbin users,

    • arkcom
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      102 years ago

      At some point they will change to whitelist, which will ban all single user instance as well.

      • JWBananas
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        82 years ago

        The root problem is that identity is tied to an instance at all. For a federated system, the lack of federated identity / single sign on is baffling.

        • FaceDeer
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          32 years ago

          Well, it’s unfortunate, but it’s not baffling. It’s quite understandable that there’s no single sign-on for a system like this.

          If you want to have both decentralization and a shared “identity” across all of the decentralized servers then you’re probably going to need something like a blockchain to accomplish that. But people are already complaining about how complicated the Fediverse is, so adding a blockchain into the backbone will likely be challenging to pull off. Not to mention the knee-jerk reaction a lot of people have to the word “blockchain” or “cryptocurrency” regardless of what the actual practical application of it might be.

    • admiralteal
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      52 years ago

      Hard disagree. You’re stating a subjective opinion about the experience you want to have as a hard fact about the experience everyone else should have. You don’t get to tell other people what they like.

      Being on an instance that is well-moderated without you having to do that work yourself is one of the selling points of fedi apps. I am sure a huge number of people who signed up on Beehaw wanted exactly this.

      • @CanadaPlus
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        2 years ago

        It’s very consistent on SDF, unfortunately. I can see in console it’s not sending any internet traffic on submit, and the users themselves are displaying on here without any @'s.