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Christine Lemmer-Webber "Not a showstopper for me, but definitely not what people expect from a Twitter-clone."
That makes sense to me. I don't think this bothered me in the same way because I never liked Twitter, but I get it.
There are certainly some bizarre behaviors on Mastodon that come with horizons, both due to differences in federation/defederation and due to timing of following.
I think the former issue can never be comprehensively resolved on a decentralized network as long as different parts of the network enact different sets of values. I think it can be mitigated in *subsets* of the network through technologically standardized lists of how different instances/servers and individuals should be moderated.
The second issue (timing of following) I *think* is an artifact of push-based federation, and could be resolved if content were shared on the basis of pulls instead. This certainly seems to be an issue with Mastodon, but I don't know to what degree this is intrinsic to ActivityPub, and I'd be curious to hear if Christine or Darius have more to say about that.
