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Cake day: January 22nd, 2025

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  • Pro:

    • Interplatform Interaction(Activity Pub): Instances if the same platform and the Instances themselves can communicate (message, post, upvote, etc) with each other if they are federated.
    • Decentralized: Community managed instances means no commertial interest, no single point of failure and the option of having your own rules. Intances with bad rules or intentions do not get federated (can’t interact with each other).
    • Free Open Source Software: Transparency and community contributions, If a project is abandoned it can always come back in the form a fork…
    • Privacy: No data collection, no data selling from the platform/intances themselves.
    • No advertisements
    • No shitty UI

    Con:

    • Decentralized: People do not expect to have to choose a instance(server), and assume they are missing out on the other servers joining a particular one. And since its community supported the uptime and longevity of instances may be cut short.
    • Free Open Source Software: Community volunteers to delevop the platforms on their free time means that sometimes development can be slow or even the project is abandoned.
    • Cost on missing out on already established Big Tech platforms