ActivityPub, the secret weapon of the Fediverse
> <i>ActivityPub prevents that a social media platform becomes a silo (see photo) that can’t communicate with other platforms.</i><p>I wish that were true. In practice, server admins are more than happy to block federation with entire other domains (and all associated users, hundreds or thousands at a time) based on little more than gossip and rumor.<p>Imagine if email services worked this way! “subscriber@otherhost is rumored to be slightly politically oriented in a way we don’t like, so we as admins have prevented everyone@thishost from mailing everyone@otherhost, and vice versa”.<p><a href="https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/12600" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/12600</a><p>“the internet treats censorship like damage and something something”<p>I’m glad that, in practice, you can still email people who are destination-server-adjacent to users your local mailserver admin hates.  (Of course, mailservers can configure to drop mail from specified MXes too—but they don’t. Usually they get spam-foldered.)<p>PS: I’m on the fediverse at @sneak@sneak.berlin and would love more people to follow.