Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Being an admin or mod on fedi means you will be held responsible for the actions of your users and you will personally be held to a higher standard of behaviour than you're used to and you should maybe get to grips with that first

Depressing to see people respond to "would you block a Facebook instance" with "it depends on their behaviour"

Like, if the past 10 years of overtly malicious behaviour - *literally* including screwing over another federated protocol - weren't enough data for you, exactly where does the bar lie?

Being a mastodon admin is a tough job,, every morning my users send me hate mail, things like "website slow" or "videos still aren't working" or "can we please have an emoji"

Being an admin and mod of an instance absolutely requires the ability to step back when you get heated to assess the situation. Recognizing when you are in the wrong, taking responsibility when something messes up on the server or if your instance is becoming a problem in the wider community, and sometimes making hard decisions. You will never stop really feeling the urge to just keep giving chances or ignore problems because you do not want to start drama.

Our instance is not large, but I have noticed that we need to do the above things even more as we get more members and attention.

When I see people gunning to run a large instance, I have to wonder if they have internalized that. Sometimes they do. But a lot of times they do not.

If you run a big instance, you will eventually have to make a decision on whether to suspend your peers because they have been harassing people in ways that you are ignorant about.
You will eventually have to start tanking heat because you said something foolish or ill advised.
You will have to have awkward and uncomfortable conversations with your members sometimes, even they are your friends.
You are going to have to accept that you are not going to please everyone, and some instances will just not trust you.
You are going to have to decouple federation and unlimited access in your mind.

Microsoft: We have two different messaging systems that are both called Teams.
Google: Hold my beer, and my beer, and my beer, and my beer.

we have reached gas-powered lawn tool season 😔

I replied to a followers-only post with an unlisted (publicly visible) one, because it made sense both within and without the context of the conversation and I wanted to share it with more people.

But since fedi software often inherits the privacy setting from a post to its replies, I could accidentally trick the poster to continue the thread with a higher visibility.

Maybe software could warn about such situations? #FediWishlist

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in the early 2000s there was this movement of techbros who thought that government could be replaced by a machine. like, instead of having government, you just programmed a logic and the machine made all the decisions and everyone should just give themselves over to the logic of the machine and it would be our master. if you’re wandering about bias and who would be responsible for programming that machine, it would of course be the rich white silicon valley techbros. every time one of these billionaire techbros opens their mouth to talk about tech progress, or gets found out for doing some shady data privacy shit, or uses their company to mass manipulate their user base, or builds some ai minority report cop tool; just remember that these are the people who want to build their own government machine.

(this post is not a defense of human governments. all governments get fucked)

I just noticed money message quietly dropped the MSI src trees.

hxxp://vkge4tbgo3kfc6n5lgjyvb7abjxp7wdnaumkh6xscyj4dceifieunkad.onion/SW_sourcecode/

I wonder how long it'll take for people to mirror everything.

okay straight-up

when facebook comes to the fediverse we gotta be prepared

we gotta make it untenable for them to remain here

block them en-masse at the very least, as a baseline, as a start

we gotta make them know in no uncertain terms their corporate fuckery is NOT welcome here

do everything in our power to sabotage their experience and make them fuck off forever

they wanna embrace and extend so they can extinguish us

it's war and we're in their corporate crosshairs

There's so many cautionary stories about evil genies twisting your wishes, but if I ever met one it would be a struggle to not wish for "flat design" to go away forever. It is hard for me to imagine what could be a worse UI trend than a design language that draws all of its aesthetic richness from poorly xeroxed tax paperwork.

So the tech CEO who got murdered in SF was killed by someone he knew and the ex-fire SF chief turned cannabis entrepreneur who was savagely beaten turns out to have been going around spraying homeless people with bear spray. It's almost like all these SF is so dangerous narratives exist merely to support the biases of the people spreading them.

to be clear

this sets a dangerous precedent

for large instances to be doing this as the fediverse is experiencing such huge spikes in growth

whether they intend it or not, they are trying to make "no fundraising" the new normal on here and we CANNOT let them

this is a critical time where we'll have to make sure we don't lose too much ground to corporate bullshit

that, culturally, the most important parts of the fediverse as a community remain. the parts that help people and keep them alive

Complaints about people defedding from or blocking users/instances because they "talk to" users/instances that are "hated" are something else. With ActivityPub, your safety is only as strong as your weakest link. If you have followers on an instance that has followers on an instance of harassers, and the first instance faves/replies to/boosts your post, your post gets hand delivered to the harassers' timelines.

So yeah, admins opting to defed merely for association are ​​ af #FediblockMeta

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#seattle