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@dude If @thegibson wants to be helpful, he should ask his user to withdraw the DMCA complaint.
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@dude @moonman @mewmew@blob.cat > To think someone expects more control over how something moves in a federated system than a closed one is kind of mind boggling.
Not really. The verbal marketing of some Fediverse software says that you have total control over everything, despite the docs being silent on the issue.
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I remember when someone discovered that search engines index federated sites. They were surprised, even though it is an expected behavior of search engines to index any site that does not forbid it in robots.txt.
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@dude @1iceloops123 I don't think RDN can even federate with modern GS instances, let alone other software.
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@sim @saintfury The GS software had/has a FAQ built in (partly written by @simsa03) ... but other documentation can exist (such as wikis and blog posts), and experienced people can point new people to them. Yet other things could be to rewrite the way we do / display things, so that federation (we're communicating with people from other instances) is visible and forefront. One example is to display full "user @ instance . tld" names as the primary handle (secondary nicks can be displayed in parentheses or angle brackets), but that's just one of many things that can be done to emphasize the differences that people need to understand when they use these networks.
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@sim In other words, we often intentionally try to look like the #corpocentric networks and hide the things that make this one different. Then we are caught off-guard when users (especially new users, but sometimes people who have been around for a year or two) show ignorance about the fundamental differences inherent a #federated network. We need to make it clear, from the beginning, that this is NOT really a clone of Twitter or Facebook, but something far different.