This week, the Catholic Church wrote one of the better diagnoses of why decentralised social networks keep struggling.
…the collaboration between instances on things like moderation is virtually nonexistent. There is no form of federated diplomacy, or even a mental framework on how servers should interact, besides defederation when you get too annoyed with another server…
… [On the other hand, with BlueSky there is the opposite failure mode:] solidarity without subsidiarity is the benevolent provider of infrastructure: one big network that takes care of everyone and quietly removes their agency."
Shared moderation, but ultimately being able to define communities as full fediverse thing, like the evolution of lemmy’s or piefed’s communities: make their management entirely possible through ActivityPub
What sort of community management is not possible with the current activityPub architecture?
The architecture can do everything; what’s missing is the actual implementations working with it