[leandrod]

ActivityPub was to be the federal social network, but cancel culture balkanised it.

[mattl]

How so?

[polski-g]

Imagine if Yahoo Mail blocked all of Gmail because someone who used the latter posted A Racisms™ to Google Docs.

That is ActivityPub.

[mattl]

More like imagine if my personal domain name blocked your personal domain name because you keep sending me unwanted email, maybe.

It's a mistake to have huge silo servers in the first place.

[prmoustache]

It is only an issue for people who choose to create accounts on huge activitypub servers.

[meepmorp]

"People who don't want to read my bullshit are the real Nazis."

[immibis]

It's a real effect. I got blocked from following Brian Krebs because someone (on a different server) said someone else couldn't be a Nazi because they were black, I said being black doesn't disqualify someone from being a Nazi, and someone on Brian Krebs's server reported it as racism.

I only got this reversed two months later by making my own account on Brian Krebs's server and calling out the admin in a public toot on that server.

[prmoustache]

If Brian Krebs was using a mastodon server instance, you have never been blocked from following him.

[immibis]

He is, and I was. You cannot follow people who are on a server that has blocked your server. Your follow request will be ignored, and his new toots will not be delivered to your server. If you were already following him, this follow relationship is deleted on his end, his server will deliver an unfollow notification, and then will not deliver his new toots to your server.

You can still view his profile on his server using a web browser, which is not the same as following him.

[prmoustache]

Unless they are using a fork with an rss feed reader you can still follow him.