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Nancy Baym @nancybaym@octodon.social
Studying technology in social life since 1991. Writer of books and articles you can find through nancybaym.com.
Is there a good overview of the federated model that explains things like: What stops the nazis from making their own instances and making the federated timeline unusable? How can people compare instances for best fit? What happens to your account information when an instance goes down or dies?
Or are we making this all up as we go? Are there examples this is mimicking?
How do people decide which instance to be on? How do you work through confusion of same acct names on different instances? Should we namestake on every instance we can and see which one seems best suited to us? How did you pick?
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