So, can someone explain to me why people who don't like posts about politics can't just not follow people who post about politics?
Genuine question. Because I do feel that the stakes are society itself, and the life or death of millions, and I do feel that OStatus/GNU Social could and should play an important role in this.
A civil discussion on this would be appreciated.
@forteller the entire point of having a federated network is allow for different community standards.
@tetron I disagree. It obviously is one use of it, and a smart way to use it. But it's far from the entire point. The point is to have a neutral communications platform that no one owns or controls. What better place to talk about in what direction we are, and should, steer society?
@forteller original reply was a bit too terse. What I meant was if toots about politics is a problem, either party has the option of moving to a new site with different standards (although I wonder how/if account & identity migration works?)
@tetron Yes, and that's a very good thing. There really should be a seamless system for migrating your whole account over to an other instance using the OStatus protocol, including profile, contacts, posts and settings, no matter if it's to/from Mastodon, GNU Social or something else. #FeatureRequest
Also: That won't help if people watch the federated stream and start complaining about political posts there… :) Needs to be very clear info on what each instance is for and how to use the streams
@tetron Writing these thoughts down I find it very unlikely that we will ever get to a point where there is not a very small handfull of instances where most of the users gathers. That's unfortunate, but infinitely better than todays system of only walled gardes. E-mail works great, even though most ppl use Gmail, Live/Hotmail and Yahoo (still?).
@forteller right, but N > 1 while maintaining interoperability is still a huge improvement. Also email comparison is only valid for American consumer market, plenty of independent email systems operated by large companies, markets in other countries, etc.
