Sorry if this is a dumb question, but what do you mean by federate?
I think WideAwake means centralization, either by uniting or combining.
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.
Sorry to ask you what I could find out myself, but you seem to have some knowledge on it. By federating, they have to follow some common code of conduct?
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/
Yes thank you! Not real familiar with that term with regards to hosting / social media. Big help!
He seems to think that if voat, poal, and phucks all get together to make a meta-site, it will be a mighty empire of dumbshits, and he will be an early member. Also this throat place he seems to be talking about. Then he will revel in his power and prestige, and others will post only at his leisure, and he will be completely in charge of all white supremacy and antisemitism. Not to mention criticism of established government.
Also, then every quip ever typed by anyone outside of reddit can be used in federal hate-speech litigation without the need to spend so much time researching identities. Oh, look! Federal, federation ... hm.
Voat and Poal definitely won't be coming together anytime soon, Voat is centralized and has their own agenda to profit just like Reddit. The Poal devs have already made use of federated tech through PeerTube and possibly Mastodon in the future. Here's my explanation of what I meant by federated https://poal.co/s/Poaldev/63353/6652c3a4-a085-472a-9d9c-5989d7c65264
If the Poal wants to be a true platform for freedom of speech, decentralization seems like the best way forward. By federating, no one would have control over the content of the website, as anyone could selfhost their own instance and submit their content to Poal if that's what the devs wanted.
My issue with the decentralization thing(and I'm not against it) is that if no one has control over platform at all then no one can stop people from implementing censorship.
I helped someone setup a throat instance just a few days ago, anyone can setup one up. Poal.co isn't exactly throat anymore but its still based on it.
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