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Reddit had/has the same problem. It's just that federation makes it way more obvious on the threadiverse.

All platforms on the fediverse interact because they are part of the same protocol, ActivityPub. (While there are more federated and decentralised protocols, "Fediverse" refers to ActivityPub based social network)

Other federated and/or decentralised platforms have other protocols, for example Diaspora* which has its own protocol, also supported by Hubzilla (which main protocol is Zot and also supports AP), Friendica (also AP and Ostatus) and SocialHome. Or Ostatus (GNU Social, Pleroma (also AP), and Matrix (Matrix)

A social media can interact with other social media that share the same protocol.

so Friendica can interact with Diaspora, Lemmy and GNU social, because it supports Diapora*, AP and OStatus, but the other three, being mono-protocol cannot interact with each other.

No federated alternative as of yet. It's one of the platform types that the fediverse is lacking

For what I understand, it's just like you are saying. The biggest problem/annoyance is when the home server goes down permanently. So yeah, having some kind of backup would be a great idea

I haven't tried any of the macroblogging platforms, but I plan to. For what I've read Hubzilla has a feature call Nomadic Identity that, while it makes server migration easier, creates problems with federation, but nothing too severe as to render it unusable.

It just that, because it's a Zot feature, when you go from a clone to another, your contacts from platforms other than Hubzilla (or anything based on Zot are lost), but If you don't care much about that, it's a great feature because it means that you can keep using the platform even if your home server is offline

Why? They are different platforms.

Mastodon, Misskey, GoToSocial and Pleroma don't use the same terminology either.

No. Facebook. For me it will always be Facebook (company, not platform).

"Meta" is nothing more than an attempt to clean their image.

No. We know how Facebook is and what their intentions are.

I don't know if there's a site like that, but there are tools for looking at defederation and federation of a given instance:

1- In the main page of each instance there should be an "about" or "info" button that should contain a part with the list of blocked and limited instances. There could also be a "federation" or "instance" button.

(although I think that I page that collects and gives easier access to these list would be a great resource to have)

2- You can search #/Fediblock. There instance admins/mods (and also common users) from different instances and softwares of the fediverse publish news of defederation and blocking/muting and advise other instance admins/mods and common users to do the same.

I don't get the issue here.

This is common in de-centralized social media.

Federation allows the admins of a server to decide what kind of servers they want to federate with, but also to defederate from others.

It's only two servers that were creating problems with all the trolling and intolerant comments that came from there. Beehaw didn't isolate itself/blocked everyone else in the fediverse.

This is one of the things I like the most about the fediverse in general. People who only wants negative engagement are hard to come by and easy to avoid.

And even if lemmy/kbin grows so much that that kind of users start to migrate from reddit to any of those platforms, it's posible to block the users or even defederate their instances, because if they keep that attitude it will reach the point that only instances that are already massively defederated for their behaviour will accept them, or they will be forced to form their own instances, that will promptly get defederated.

In centralised social media, this kind of people and behaviour are almost imposible to avoid because their algorithms are designed to promote that kind of engagement.

Hello. I've been having trouble with my sight (basically it gets blurry suddenly and I can't see thing that are at a close or middle distance. At the beginning the "blur" only affected the view of things near me, but it's been getting worse) and to feel my arms and legs, which of course affects my mobility. Apart from being in pain almost constantly

Finally, a year ago I was diagnosed with several issues in my vertebral column, including cyst in my cervical vertebrae, that doctors have told me will never go away.

The issue with my sight seems to be at a muscle level, but my doctor cannot be sure until she can compare two visual field test. I've just had my second one last week (the other was last year when I started to make appointments with her after struggling for years with specialists that told me nothing was wrong and that they were no changes in my visual), so luckily it won't be much time until I get a diagnosis.

To make things worse, I've started to have heart issues and my last ECG (a simple one and holter) came with bad results. But I don't have an appointment with a cardiologist til July.

I also have hyperacusis and bad fine motor skills that I don't know if I was born with or were a product of the epilepsy I had from age 3 to age 14.