ActivityPub, the secret weapon of the Fediverse
> ActivityPub prevents that a social media platform becomes a silo (see photo) that can’t communicate with other platforms.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.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”.https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/12600“the internet treats censorship like damage and something something”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.)PS: I’m on the fediverse at @sneak@sneak.berlin and would love more people to follow.