“oh wait, you can’t interact with content from servers that blocked you, or are blocked. Don’t worry, this is only used to stop spam and illegal content. Except for when it isn’t”.
Yesterday I said something along the lines of “servers don’t matter” and then someone said “well if they don’t matter then why is it even a question?” and I almost collapsed in on myself.
Insert an asterisk there.
“oh wait, you can’t interact with content from servers that blocked you, or are blocked. Don’t worry, this is only used to stop spam and illegal content. Except for when it isn’t”.
Yesterday I said something along the lines of “servers don’t matter” and then someone said “well if they don’t matter then why is it even a question?” and I almost collapsed in on myself.
don’t forget when federation just doesn’t work because the servers aren’t aware of each other!
happens quite often on smaller servers
or links to anything in the threadiverse doesn’t open via your instance without an app, extension or proper linking unless it’s from the front page.