while I'm at asking noob questions: What is it with all those follow/federation bots that keep following me? Is this just technology made visible, or are they scanning me to determine if I'm a spammer?
@eal yeah, I see that one probably wants to dip their toes into this thing with one instance, start research and then after a month or so, change to the instance best suited to ones preferences.
@JollyOrc Yeah, I think I got lucky with my choice because I really like cybre.space:
- Toots are pings, likes are florps
- Lots of cool people who like cyberpunk
- Great domain name
- Admin who knows their shit and some really reasonable rules
Optimally the distributed stuff should /just work/ on any instance so that it didn't matter, but I guess the communities are bound to have their own culture.
@eal Need to make my mind up on this yet.
I can see the upside, but I also can see an upside to the federated timeline being populated by people that are deemed interesting because they've been actively marked as such, not because a bot simply grabbed everyone it could find.