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What is the most important unanswered question about the Fediverse? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 week ago by gedaliyah to c/asklemmy

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There are a large number of unanswered questions about the Fediverse. I don't just mean questions that users may have, but questions for which no suitable answer exists yet. Some are extremely abstract and existential like "will the Fediverse survive the next decade?" Other questions are very concrete like, "What is the copyright status of a federated post?" or "What are the moral implications of federating content that may be harmful or recording a crime?"

I wonder, for those of you who stay up nights thinking about the Fediverse, which question is the most important to you?

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[–] brucethemoose 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

What's to stop people from making "tunnel" instances, maybe even with reposts?

That aside, ultimately, we're at the mercy of whoever is paying for the instance, and their interests. So if everything does fragment, it's just kinda the nature of the hosts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Sure. The nice thing is, it's all Free Software. I pay like 6€ a month for my own small server. I'm at my own mercy.