It’s not confusing. People just have different ideas about what the experience should be
It’s not confusing.
The quotes were my indication that I don’t personally find it confusing, but a lot of people obviously do or it wouldn’t have that perception.
People just have different ideas about what the experience should be
If they have different ideas, it’s because they are confused about how it works. There’s only 1 way it’s ever going to work. There’s no debate to be had. No one gets to control the Fediverse, and no one needs permission to join it. That is inherent in it’s fundamental design.
No they’re not confused. I’ve seen a lot of these discussions on Mastodon. They don’t misunderstand the tech, they’re actively trying to curate a community.
Exactly. There’s a core disagreement about whether making a public post means consenting to it being used for all purposes without consent (the multiple battles about consent-based search), but relatively few people are confused about whether bad actors will use it without consent.
But public posts federating across the network isn’t an “experience”. It’s the basic functionality of the network.
