> Email is the example I give people of how federation could work.
Email being store-and-forward and therefore high-latency makes decentralization work reasonably well for email.
> You can't get banned from email. You can't get banned from having your own website. You can't get banned from the telephone system. If you don't own your own data, you are at the mercy of those who do.
Sure you can. Your site/IPs can get RBLed. Hosting sites can refuse to do business with you. Network providers can refuse to do business with you. DNS registrars can refuse to do business with you. Search engines can deprioritize your site. These things happen less with personal sites than they do with mass social media accounts, but they happen, and eventually they will happen a lot more, and they'll happen to Mastodon instances, I'm sure.
Email being store-and-forward and therefore high-latency makes decentralization work reasonably well for email.
> You can't get banned from email. You can't get banned from having your own website. You can't get banned from the telephone system. If you don't own your own data, you are at the mercy of those who do.
Sure you can. Your site/IPs can get RBLed. Hosting sites can refuse to do business with you. Network providers can refuse to do business with you. DNS registrars can refuse to do business with you. Search engines can deprioritize your site. These things happen less with personal sites than they do with mass social media accounts, but they happen, and eventually they will happen a lot more, and they'll happen to Mastodon instances, I'm sure.