Whole-known-network
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.fa-fo.de/@fafo" class="u-url mention">@<span>fafo</span></a></span> I don't even know what I'm looking at here, but there's something menacing about it.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@rain" class="u-url mention">@<span>rain</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@recursive" class="u-url mention">@<span>recursive</span></a></span> my reason is that I really don't want build products in the source tree, especially given how you can't remove anything from the history</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> a sentiment I see on fedi is "posts are impermanent, just wipe them" and I couldn't disagree more. why would I bother to make posts that are worthless</p>
<p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@ryanc/113387231553222876" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">infosec.exchange/@ryanc/113387</span><span class="invisible">231553222876</span></a></p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.fa-fo.de/@fafo" class="u-url mention">@<span>fafo</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://nerdculture.de/@M" class="u-url mention">@<span>M</span></a></span> yeah</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.fa-fo.de/@fafo" class="u-url mention">@<span>fafo</span></a></span> what in the name of fuck.</p>
<p>- The fediverse is almost optimized for tricking people into starting instances without realizing how the resource/moderation burden will scale as it grows</p><p>- The fediverse therefore makes the single chief operators of a server a single point of failure</p><p>- Offers those operators no options for dealing with overextension/burnout/cost growth other than shutting down </p><p>- And offers the users no facility for saving either their usernames or their post histories when the shutdown inevitably happens</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@rain" class="u-url mention">@<span>rain</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@recursive" class="u-url mention">@<span>recursive</span></a></span> then I think we have fundamentally incompatible views of what "like Dropbox" means</p><p>I'm sure you have a good point but I don't hope to understand what it is</p>
<p>This is, in my opinion, the most severe problem with the Fediverse. People were warning about this issue as early as 2016 and we still don't have a solution. I'm shocked more people don't quit the Fediverse entire when this happens to them</p><p><a href="https://muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/29/10-29-rip-botsin-space/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/2</span><span class="invisible">9/10-29-rip-botsin-space/</span></a></p><p>I'm not saying the operator of botsin.space made the wrong decision here. But it's broken we have a network architecture where making this decision inherently means the fediverse permanently losing a domain name and a block of history</p>