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Federating Poal/Throat?

I'm not sure if this has been asked before, but has anyone considered federating Poal/Throat? Once one of the Reddit alternatives federate, they will massively increase in popularity. Is it possible that Poal could federate in the future?

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By federate, I mean as in 'The Federation' https://the-federation.info/ - https://fediverse.party/, it's a group of open source social media platforms like Mastodon, Plemora, PeerTube, Frendica, Hubzilla etc. By federating these social media platforms share all their userbase and that makes it so anyone can host their own instance of whatever social media and connect to other instances. This is what Gab intends to do by changing their platform over to Mastodon, which will make them uncensorable on the app stores because anyone can connect to their instance through other federated apps.

This is opposite of centralization where one server controls the entire system like Voat or Twitter. I hope that clears it up.

I'm not sure if this has been asked before, but has anyone considered federating Poal/Throat? Once one of the Reddit alternatives federate, they will massively increase in popularity. Is it possible that Poal could federate in the future? **Edit**: By federate, I mean as in 'The Federation' https://the-federation.info/ - https://fediverse.party/, it's a group of open source social media platforms like Mastodon, Plemora, PeerTube, Frendica, Hubzilla etc. By federating these social media platforms share all their userbase and that makes it so anyone can host their own instance of whatever social media and connect to other instances. This is what Gab intends to do by changing their platform over to Mastodon, which will make them uncensorable on the app stores because anyone can connect to their instance through other federated apps. This is opposite of centralization where one server controls the entire system like Voat or Twitter. I hope that clears it up.

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I don't believe there is a code of conduct for the network of federated servers, each instance has their own set of rules and can block other instances from showing up on their own instance. Some of the Mastodon instance owners are going to block Gabs domain from coming up in their instance for example.

However the list of federated servers (https://the-federation.info/info) can have their own code of conduct and prevent you from listing your instance on their website. TheFederation.info has a code of conduct that prevents a lot of content "Harmful content can be, but not limited to, malware, graphical material of minorities, abusive images, hateful content, racist content and climate denialism. The admins of this site reserve the right to decide case by case on blocking of nodes."

Although there is nothing preventing you from hosting your own list without this code of conduct. Here are some Federation server list alternatives , https://fediverse.party/en/fediverse/