@aldoushux I feel like this has a 50/50 chance of devolving into a giant, federated, decentralized fart joke

@mhall119 haha. could be... Hey your not Dexter!

@aldoushux Correction: I am not *yet* Dexter.

@mhall119 @aldoushux - yeah, hard to tell. There is an influx of OSS people. The interactions (thus far) are wayyyy more personal than on twitter. But that is because it is small right now. But I like that aspect. But doesn't mean it is here to stay. Few people claiming that it is a viable replacement to g+ if that takes a dirt nap.

@bashfulrobot @aldoushux I wonder what's to stop trolls from standing up their own instance and flooding the network with hate bots

@mhall119 @aldoushux - Right now, nothing (that I can see). But we could do something about it in theory. We all have unlimited time, right? ha.

@bashfulrobot @mhall119 @aldoushux I think the only real thing that would stop it is at the instance level disabling federation with that spammy instance

@mhall119 @bashfulrobot @aldoushux federation whitelisting

@Xyc0 @mhall119 @aldoushux Does that exist today? Or are you proposing?

@bashfulrobot @mhall119 @aldoushux it already exists. the longterm question is what will stop natzis from creating their own federation?

@Xyc0 @mhall119 @aldoushux It sounds like a similar issue to LE certs and the initial verification. I'm too new to this to have a suggestion.

@Xyc0 @bashfulrobot @aldoushux I don't think nazis in their own bubble are the real concern, it's when that bubble bursts out onto the rest of us that's the problem

@mhall119 @aldoushux @Xyc0 so this.

@Xyc0 @bashfulrobot @aldoushux I'm not sure any manual process will be sustainable long-term

@mhall119 @aldoushux @Xyc0 Absolutely not sustainable. Things need to "flow". There are already a few rough edges here. Remains to be seen if this is the "new hotness" that falls on its face. And if the sandpaper arrives in time.

@Algot It might be, time will tell