@iftas @admin and that's great! I even think that the development of "neighborhoods" on ActivityPub fedi is "working as intended" and likely a good thing, albeit messy as you say.

what I'm saying is that should any organized push toward allow-list federation on big general-purpose instances develop - which would disempower the vast long tail of self-hosters and tiny instances (say, 10 active users or less) and threaten to cut us off from our friends - it will meet with resistance. that's all.

@iftas @admin thanks for clarifying your mindset.

@iftas @admin what I am saying, I think, is two things.

1. any push for allow-list federation at bigger general-purpose instances will inherently further fracture & divide a fediverse which already has divisions (mostly based on language, but also other concerns)

2. this is my online home. I've been here nearly 10 years. I'm moving more toward selfhosting with each passing month. I will very vigorously oppose any such push, and I assure you I won't be alone in that. just saying.

@iftas @admin sure. just letting you know that if a move develops to start implementing it at bigger more general-purpose instances, there will be pushback, and for very good reason. thanks for all your work.

@iftas @admin moving toward allowlist federation will radically disempower selfhosters and everyone on the long tail of small activitypub instances. no thanks. I'll do whatever I can to oppose it whenever it comes up outside of insular "safe space" communities.