Pretty much all of the activitypub services out there offer RSS feeds, so if you want user-created RSS content you can subscribe to the Feed of a community or user on Lemmy, or a user on Mastodon.
Seems like Matrix would be more suited for that kind of chat based environment.
All that really matters in the end is decompileability or source code availability. The other licensing stuff is extra and doesn't matter because businesses fail and people die. When incapacitated, or sunk into obscurity it's yours for the taking.
Couldn't disagree with you more, the thing about federation is that it isn't viewing the content on the server it was posted on, it is crossposting it to all other federated servers. That means you are when federating remote content you are literally platforming it. That also means you are liable for it if it's objectionable or illegal content. So being able to not accept those crossposts is important. Honestly defederation and limited federation are not as big of issues as you and others think they are, you can ignore the majority of the defederated servers and it'll be fine, the issue comes when people want the world and aren't entitles to have it, like I said in my other comment.
Email is an example of a successful federated platform and it barely has defederation support.
You are insanely naive for saying this. If you'd used non-corporate email servers, like the much smaller email providers out there (which are basically extinct at this point) you'd know just how wrong this actually is. Most smaller email providers out there are blocked or limited by the big ones and the ones that are blocked your mail will never reach the inboxes of people on the big servers, not even the spam folders on those servers. They won't bounce it back to you either, so it'll just go into the void.
Most email these days is used primarily by the all mighty trinity: Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo, and a Few on Hotmail and AOL and while there are a few smaller companies out there like Proton, when it comes to something that isn't a company or is self-hosted you can expect a lot of problems with domains being blacklisted, IPs being blacklisted, or both. And it's actually much worse than defederation.
Perhaps that is how at least the non-threaded fediverse should work… However, that would also mean that some instance hosting heinous shit would keep being visible to everyone. It’s a tricky problem.
You're beginning to realize why the decision to limit spam and illegal shit was chosen over catering to the people who want the whole federated world instead of what they're allowed access to. Ultimately it is better for everyone if the depraved shit and spam gets blocked, than it is for the people who want the whole world to have their way. If you want the world, go to Nostr, you'll learn why most people do not want the world.
They’re choosing to attack the public square anyway, because they don’t want their shelters, they want the whole fucking world. And they can’t have it.
This is the best way of putting it, the whole thing about people complaining about defederation. Honestly fuck the people who are like this, who do you think you are asking for the whole world when you weren't entitled to it in the first place. You weren't entitled access to Facebook content from Reddit or vice versa. It's the same here.
I know that part of the reason people like that came her in the first place was because Mastodon and the OG fediverse services made that empty promise to them in the beginning (also saying a lot of shit about freedom and free speech) so those are the people that have been attracted. It really needs to be said loud and clear that this isn't the case or intention, and catering to people who want the world when they don't deserve it, is not the goal of the Fediverse or decentralization.
Just replying again to remind you to check up on it when you're sober. I think it would be beneficial for you and other people in that situation to post about your experience with .ml in the community I mentioned since not many people call out the power tripping by .ml admins despite it happening quite often.
You should also crosspost this on [email protected] (include a screenshot of your modlog entries also) it's a good community to discuss and share moderator or in this case admin power tripping. I'd say it's probably one of the best ways to call attention to this type of crap.
You can see it in your modlog by filtering by community bans. Here's a link to that: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModBanFromCommunity&userId=7652836
That said a lot of these bans you received seem more than justified, only the Hexbear ones I would really chalk up to nutty mods, but if you disagree I'd suggest posting about it on [email protected] as this isn't the place to discuss mod abuse, that is.
Would need to be one that restricts participation of the other party, Lemmy blocks are useless in that regard. Otherwise you're not doing anything to deal with network effect just pretending those spaces don't exist. Something only useful for snowflakes with weak emotions, and not people who want to make a difference.
In order for that to work there needs to be effort taken to curb persistent network effect like the utterly monolithic communities on lemmy.ml. When there isn't any, they just get bigger and stronger. That isn't something you can do by starting new instances, it has to be done by ones with a big slice of the pie, something new instances never have unless started just after the collapse of an existing one.
I suggest you add [email protected] to the news section. Beehaw isn't accessible to people on instances they've defederated from or instances that have defederated them.
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I mean yeah, that applies with any service that uses an RSS feed. RSS is just a syndication protocol, it's meant to only broadcast. If you want to contribute, you'll need to be a part of the service which is broadcasting i.e. Lemmy or Mastodon.