[SevenNation]

> Yet there is the belief that you can somehow create a coherent experience into a “whatever”. Whatever it is actually. My first mastodon instance was de-federated by accident from my current instance. I moved to that instance though because many other hackers in the Open Source space did, and unlike Fosstodon it seems to allow non English content which I do care about quite a bit. (After all my life and household is multilingual and I don't live in an English speaking country.) Yet that instance still defederates qoto and I'm guessing because qoto permits unpopular opinions and does not block servers itself.

Given the history of email, I'm surprised there hasn't been more about the economics of spam, blacklists, and so on.

Substitute the email-specific parts of the following article with Mastodon-specific terms and concepts, and it doesn't paint a very pretty picture.

https://blog.lopp.net/death-of-decentralized-email/