Amrith
@amrith
What makes decentralized social like @farcaster and Lens different from what Mastodon has been trying to achieve for many years now? (excluding web2 v/s web3 comparison) 🤔
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Cassie Heart
@cassie
Mastodon does not have a unified identity — usernames are fully @
[email protected]
. Farcaster has a notion of fids and fnames, which do not get bound to (or controlled by) node operators. This offers greater portability if a node operator decides to engage in censorship.
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Cassie Heart
@cassie
Additionally, mastodon shifts the burden onto users to choose a server, and manage the export of their data if for some reason the server shuts down or decides to deplatform you.
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Cassie Heart
@cassie
This has, as one would have expected, resulted in there being effectively one major “official” Mastodon server, and another that is effectively a “castaway” who server owners refuse to peer with.
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wartime art hoe
@ivy
i remember back in the early masto days after the motherboard article drove tons of traffic there being an instance blocklist that was included in the code repo at once point that had about 8 instances blocked for being 'free speech'
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