What is your biggest worry about the future of the Fediverse?

Yes I realize there are many other worries but these are top of mind for me atm

@annaleen I voted for fragmentation because it has already caused me real headaches.

I'm not on the instance where most of my tech community is, and their instance does not accept mastodon.social by default (due to lack of moderation), so I'm just not part of most of the interesting conversations.

Twitter is working far better for me, which is a very sad statement to make, but I'm interested on social media for value over ideology (else I wouldn't use them at all).

@shriramk ugh that is so depressing to hear. this is the exact nightmare scenario I worry about

@annaleen I hear you.

I joined m.s because I wanted a large community of diverse people, not just "my crowd". For better or worse, I have seen little to no abuse here. I once pasted a link to a completely open GDoc, and nobody abused it.

To then have what I believe is the largest instance half-blocked…I mean, I get it, it isn't moderated the way they like or whatever…but it's terrible for the social part of social media. ↵

@annaleen The real power of federation is that you *can* set up a pretty private instance. Even a truly vile one if that's your thing (Gab/Parler/whatever is an ActivityPub, which in a way illustrates the power). You can be left in peace or forced to leave others in peace. I get it, it's awesome, and more power to people who were being hurt on Twitter that they have carved up these safer spaces. ↵

@annaleen But it feels like there's a fundamental conflation of hosting and moderation, which are different things. I pick a host based on my identity, say, but I want to moderate based on MY policy, not theirs. When these align well, Mastodon is GREAT! But when these don't, it's frankly quite bad. ↵