Can we maintain a web where everybody has their own instances of social media, tailored to their own specific use cases?
How about the user experience? Privacy? Can we manage user-respecting #telemetry with the fediverse and put it to use?
To sum it up: give me all of your thoughts on a #corporate web. Don't hold back, everything I listed here are just guidelines for what to respond with ;)
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@orowith2os problems: 1, if p92/barcelona/threads suddenly federated, 1.2b users would flood the fedisphere; 2, interoperable post data means everything pouring into a corp owned instance; 3, haters and moderation, at both ends of corp fed instance (i/o) ; 4, shit posting and P92 promoted post behaviours, forcing everyone else to consume gsrbage; 5, adequate leverage of the existing Fediverse to manage the big corp content firehose domination....
@tchambers@orowith2os yes I know they'd be hosted on the P92 server, like any other instance, but that's a huge influx of users, that's my point. Total domination overnight.
@tchambers@orowith2os I mean, all other poss problems I suggested, as well as others Im sure, emanate from the sheer power that 1.2b users brings. The balance of power is completely destroyed. 10m/1.2b = game over. Also, there aren't adequate mod tools (yet) to deal with haters/content domination/user blocking. Ask Ralf formerly home.social. 40k users have to migrate due to lack of moderation tools.
I think you'd need to explain why having more market share of ActivtyPub users gives them any power over the open Fediverse. I don't see it.
We keep doing what we are doing and treat it just like any other big activity pub server.
Our admin tools work just fine for problem accounts, and they get no power "over" the spec unless we cede it. And since the Fedi is non-commercial at its core, no financial reason to do so.
@tchambers@orowith2os OK. So 1st, its not down to me as one person to 'explain' why 1.2b users from a single (megacorp) provider might be a problem, its for all of us to think about possible problems entailed in anything like that - see also Bluesky/others (eg Reddit?). They wont all use ActivityPub either, they will use their own interoperable federated protocols (eg BSky). 1/
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