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Is there a good overview of the federated model that explains things like: What stops the nazis from making their own instances and making the federated timeline unusable? How can people compare instances for best fit? What happens to your account information when an instance goes down or dies?
Or are we making this all up as we go? Are there examples this is mimicking?
@nancybaym this is a good overview on how gnu social works
https://robek.world/featured/what-is-gnu-social-and-is-mastodon-social-a-twitter-clone/
this is discussion among the admins of instances about potential for pollution in federated timeline and solutions for it too, a blacklist is being used already. but other thoughts are happening
