Considering federating with the mastodon cloud with a single-user instance and what that would look like, to both me and to the rest of the instances, and the public world.
It could be a step towards a democratization of microblogging, like what wordpress did for quote-unquote normal blogs.
@geekylou the barrier to entry seems to be "the definition for how this works is only in about 20 different documents, why can't you understand it all at once"
@jamuraa yea and I've been noticing lot of the links to them point to expired domains. I want to create my stuff as a sort of reference implementation on how to do federation so others have an easier time.
@jamuraa I thought federation worked on a whitelisting basis?
@Ada it normally works on a blacklisting basis - you can follow anyone from a server from any instance by default, so that you can do a "Remote follow" to them. Some instances have switched that to a whitelisting so you can only follow from instances that are approved on a list.
@jamuraa I've been doing some experimentation with getting a simple RSS django app I made to federate with mastodon.
I really need to document it all at some point so others can build easier their own social software.