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# Fascinating concepts in the Fediverse
- URL: https://journal.jatan.space/fascinating-fediverse-concepts/
- Published: 2024-02-17T14:01:48.000Z
- Updated: 2024-02-17T14:04:02.000Z
- Author: Jatan

The ongoing [drama](https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/14/bluesky-and-mastodon-users-are-having-a-fight-that-could-shape-the-next-generation-of-social-media) concerning Ryan Barrett’s [upcoming tool](https://snarfed.org/2024-02-12%5F52106) that will bridge parts of the social networks [Mastodon](https://joinmastodon.org) and [Bluesky](https://bsky.social) led me to a rabbit hole. A reading dive into the norms and expectations that factions of people and communities have within the decentralized social Web, which currently mostly exists only via Mastodon. Some of these behavioral traits and goals can be encapsulated into fascinating concepts—or rather the behaviors emerge from these philosophies—and each has far reaching consequences. Here are some of these concepts:

- [Big Fedi and Small Fedi](https://evanp.me/2023/12/26/big-fedi-small-fedi), by Evan Prodromou
- A [Round Robin](https://spreadmastodon.org/utilities/round-robin) of sign-up servers to prevent too much centralization
- [Nodes versus Networked Communities](https://lrhodes.net/writing/groundedness-networked-community.html), by L. Rhodes
- [Fedipact](https://fedipact.veganism.social), to preemptively block Meta’s Threads from [federating](https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/C046LSmPAuN)
- [Paradox of tolerance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox%5Fof%5Ftolerance)
- [Moderate people, not code](https://snarfed.org/2024-01-21%5Fmoderate-people-not-code), by Ryan Barrett