Post #1360522
2026-02-09 10:03 UTC
@joeroe In a sense, tracking and citing social discourse is the antithesis of fediverse development. I trust my local instance owner's moderation efforts and personal information security, but I am not interested in any overarching repository of my utterances (nor even my citations of papers) being stored for posterity. I think a lot of people would feel the same.
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@joeroe@archaeo.social 2026-02-09 10:28
@CadeJohnson I wouldn't agree with that... to me, the core reason for federation is to allow for what we share to be accessed in the format the accessor prefers, not just narrowly on the same platform it originated. In this case, the format would be an aggregator that links URLs in posts to scholarly metadata. Of course another core tenet of the Fediverse is multiplicity of views, and people could not engage using existing tools, e.g. not federating with the aggregator or setting follower-only.