If the descentralization of social networks continue, we will have to prepare for the eventual rise of the instances wars, where people will start to fight about which instance is better and which one is weird to be in and so on, but that’s for the future of us all.
Does it really matter? So long as they remain federalized you can still access and interact with those instances.
True, but i think that it could as well come to “if you’re from this instance you are a bad person” situation. I don’t care like you say, but some people will.
Sounds good to me since there are genuinely bad people on social media, often using it as a platform to groom more reactionaries and extremists.
Corporate social media has always been slow to react to these groups and they often take the stance of “as long as they don’t go fully mask off” in order to preserve as many ad impressions as possible.
With the community in control, they can act much faster to limit astro-turfing and hate speech, pushing the far-right back into the obscure shitholes of the internet.
I kind of disagree, not totally, i agree in the fact that freedom breeds assholes, but i have to say as well that freedom breeds freedom and better and more intelligent people as well. I don’t think that we need witch hunts or bulllying to build safe instances, just intelligence. Now my opinion about your last point is that there’s hate speech everywhere, not just from your right, your left is pretty extremist as well, and pretty full of assholes. Assholes are everywhere. As always, the rule of thumb is think for yourself and don’t be an asshole. All that said, this is just my opinion man.
I can imagine other instances defederating from each other over minor or uncontrollable reasons. I’d hate to keep switching to new instances if that were to happen.
