how much federation actually solves this is a huge TBD. you’ll still need lots of resources to host a PDS, both in compute and to salary your trust & safety team.
I thought this is why it's not just mastodon-like, they've said they wanna be able to host a PDS on a raspberry pi... and then have aggregators which are the big expensive scaling part...
splitting it allows more self hosting which means even if you thoroughly suck your identity & content still exists it just loses reach
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Reply · May 30, 2023also they've split instances into PDS which is a smaller simpler server an individual could host for themself vs BGS which aggregates n indexes n…Reply · May 30, 2023yes the team has talked abt how they've analyzed mastodon & activity pub to conclude they wanted to build something different- one diff would be…Reply · Apr 9, 2023yay that seems like the defining difference- being able to host our own 😻Reply · May 20, 2023🤔 would that include putting ppl w iffy content in whichever jurisdiction has the most protective laws for that particular content?