I do think one of the things fediverse does better than what we're comparing it too is that it's *supposed* to be pretty easy to switch servers without disrupting your social connections, but I think that only remains true as long as the different servers are all basically the same, in terms of both tech and moderation. And we see how long that lasted with the LJ instances.
(That the answer to the question of what happens if the software versions on different implentations start to drift apart was "if they aren't running the most recent version nobody should talk to them anyway" didn't make me... optimistic, on how well this will scale if we get to the point where we run out of linux-y types to run all the servers. Not to mention the idea that linux-y types can keep it going without forking all over the place... Being a librarian makes me kind of militant on the topic of "backwards compatibility is a social justice issue!")
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Date: 2019-02-03 01:35 am (UTC)I do think one of the things fediverse does better than what we're comparing it too is that it's *supposed* to be pretty easy to switch servers without disrupting your social connections, but I think that only remains true as long as the different servers are all basically the same, in terms of both tech and moderation. And we see how long that lasted with the LJ instances.
(That the answer to the question of what happens if the software versions on different implentations start to drift apart was "if they aren't running the most recent version nobody should talk to them anyway" didn't make me... optimistic, on how well this will scale if we get to the point where we run out of linux-y types to run all the servers. Not to mention the idea that linux-y types can keep it going without forking all over the place... Being a librarian makes me kind of militant on the topic of "backwards compatibility is a social justice issue!")