<p>And <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@postweber" class="u-url mention">@<span>postweber</span></a></span> , I did very explicitly say "instance" in my post. Apologies for not writing a full technical manuscript in it. But instances and cross-instance peering politics, etc., are central to the Mastodon experience in a way they are not on X or Bsky (for now; though Bsky is ostensibly distributed, I'm glad that for now it's not really). ↵</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@fullyabstract" class="u-url mention">@<span>fullyabstract</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://im-in.space/@Chip_Unicorn" class="u-url mention">@<span>Chip_Unicorn</span></a></span></p>
