Kai 'wusel' Siering @wusel@uu.org

Did mastodon.social just went down? Clicking on the local timeline, e. g. https://mastodon.social/@tom_burzynski/109374302801918846 (and others), just gives the well-known anim-gif of an excited elephant ...

@tomalak @jwildeboer Ah, well, I think they can prevent me from uploading a current blockbuster or my video with a TopTen hit as background music.

More different to me would be the differentiation between lawful use of copyrighted content and it's unlawful use. Another reason I usually self-host my stuff ... 'cept for Insta :-(

@jesse @waltman ... without having to hop to their timelines? Yes, same here. Isn't that where relays can help?

@mejs GDPR question will be: what happens to them after you deleted your Twitter account? Will it become "anon749329050 retweeted", which imho should be OK?

@tomalak @jwildeboer Na, wouldn't happen. Just like uploadfilters will not become a necessity – as promised by Germany's CDU – within Germany.

(Spoiler: they became a necessity by law in Germany, as otherwise you'd need very advanced off-this-world magic to prevent copyright issues. Who would have guessed?)

@jwildeboer @tomalak I don't know it there really is an issue with "Federation" per se. I think it still works beautifully with email, with blogs unfortunately the linkage broke and RSS became unpopular, so these days one posts to … a third service to get attention for one's articles and musings.

Maybe just add an auto-select of an open instance based on location and popularity to join the Fediverse more easily? (Totally ignores instance's rule and theming, yepp ...)

@tomalak @jwildeboer EU has similar shit these days (DIRECTIVE (EU) 2019/790), but AFAICS you don't have to filter uploads against copyright misuse unless you hit 1,000,000 users ...

@jwildeboer @tomalak But the users looking for alternatives are looking _now_. Some saw the Fediverse, some tried, and some wrote about their finding that, oops, that Elephant thingy isn't the new Birdsite.

And there's Post (™, I think) already waiting to become THE (new) place where you just follow people and update the feed with a swipe. Download, signup, feddich.

@tomalak @jwildeboer And as @tomalak pointed out, defederating e. g. mastodon.social – 240k active users – would cause some interference already. Will there be a point at which admins (have to) decide to refrain from defederation instances that got "too big too fail"? (4/4)

@tomalak @jwildeboer As has been pointed out, the timeline of every instances differs. Without following people, your instance's timeline would stay boring. Without already knowing a bunch of people, that's not really to change on a small instance, as you likely never find out who to follow …

Yes, one can move aways from an instance that got itself an 'dictator' as an admin. How often is one supposed to endure this? (3/4)

@tomalak @jwildeboer As for the "power" the users have: well, surely they can relocate to another instance, but not without loss.

1) Their old handle is lost — can it actually be reused by someone else?
2) They loose their lists.
3) Their content still stays with the old instance.
4) Followership migt have to be granted again.

(2/4)

@tomalak @jwildeboer Well, as it stand, it's up to the local admin(s) to defedarate an instance. With no method of apeal or even transparent information. And they seem to decide on much more individual terms than, say, postmasters — https://fba.ryona.agency/?domain=mastodon.social has some 'reasons' listed that, in my view, asks for the defederation of _those_ instances … (1/4)

Und das »Volk« hat (per 24h-Twitter-Poll auf Musks Account) ›entschieden‹ – der orange Mann mit dem Felltoupet darf wieder twittern. Hat ihm wohl nur noch niemand gesagt ;)