There's not much point, Pleroma doesn't store your IP, you don't even need a valid email address to join. Maybe Crunk would add one if you asked.
Replying to them is broken because they all block KF lol
I rolled my own instance and a few twitter relay bots since i used Twitter only as a news blotter. I'm not blocked from any instance I don't believe but running relays to these Mastodon servers is broken at the moment because of some bug involving spoofed posts because of json or something. I can't find the bug report but it seems that the Mastodon servers just have to upgrade and it will start working again.
I can think of one good thing about it. When I'm looking for something that is not some absolute piece of shit despite being the most popular piece of software for the job I'll usually use "alternative" as a search term because I am looking for something that is not [shitty thing I hate].
I don't have a problem with the term but someone recently gave an explanation that made sense to me for why they don't work. Their leadership usually isn't tech focused, it's entirely politics and marketing, with devs that often aren't qualified to take on the jobs they do (or worse, just a lack of devs in general.)
On top of that, as we were discussing in another thread, the best communities are ones that stay focused on the content and topic at hand. If you topic at hand is "saying the n word" the only people you're going to attract are politispergs. They're unpleasant to be around no matter what your orientation.
I use some alt tech sites and they have a subset of cool people just by the law of probability but the site cultures of alt tech are really obnoxious. Pleroma has a... mostly fine one? Moreso now, it was a lot of tranny FOSS cult stuff until recently.
My understanding of the fediverse (which isn't perfect) is that it's a bit of a midpoint between twitter and discord(esq services). Servers can communicate, but they're more isolated from eachother unlike twitter where every flavor in the world gets melted together until it's one giant, mediocre pile of garbage.
That's not really the idea, it's supposed to function as one cohesive network with the properties of email and Twitter, but the existence of the public timeline sort of skews people towards insularity once an instance reaches a certain mid-range size like the Kiwi server.
Right, that's sort of what I mean. The intention was to have a whole network, but we're seeing how blocklists isolate servers with eachother. That's why I say in practice it errs more on the side of something resembling an isolated chatroom eventually. On twitter you don't have any choice but to deal with them until you whine to the trannies enough for them to banhammer.
I guess, there are enough admins that don't give AF that blocklists don't really matter. They're just annoying.
I'm not an expert and am pretty new to the tech cult, but not everything relays everywhere. There probably are limits below what's ideal, but it doesn't matter yet. What we have works for now and the globe ain't joining tomorrow.
