Just a few long-range thoughts on the technical protocols underlying the Fedi, and how particular hosting servers (Akkoma, Bonfire, Mastodon, etc...) implement them.
1) We don't have continuously accessible internet everywhere, and the places that lack it (Manipur, Sudan, etc..) are the most marginalised and also most colonized by FB, WeChat, etc. . Wars and infrastructure collapse aren't someone else's problem, and they are used ---created--- by disaster capitalists to extend oppressive communications technologies. Solidarity requires that we stop assuming continuous connectivity and neutral carriers.
2) The politics of any one country should inform the process of improving standards and implementations, but not determine them.
3) What we build now has to empower and connect all those excluded, oppressed communities now, and into the future as climate disasters, famine, migration, and conflict spread to affect everyone. All of us. Otherwise it's a rich person's hobby at an awkward moment.
bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
@yetiinabox i think something resembling the structure and technology of usenet would be pretty resilient and cheap. only encryption and privacy has to be added somewhere somehow. or done somewhere else like gnunet or wrapping in tor or ...
it's not totally easy but the problem is that the centralized things are just _too_ convenient and that people just love their moderation.
look at the instances which managed to get relevant numbers of non tech people onto the fediverse: it's probably noagenda and a handful others which are defederated by the mainstreamy tech crowd for being politically incorrect.
