Nancy Baym @nancybaym@octodon.social

@tjvr Agree that helps me think about it, but no federated email timeline or all email from your domain timeline, which is quite different.

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?

@erhardt @natematias excellent criteria. if it's good enough for nate....

@erhardt For any particular reason? I picked octodon through dumb luck and timing.

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?

@benchappell I am very skeptical with network effects and all but aren't we all so sick of twitters and facebook?

Hello.