 What is and isn't acceptable for businesses to do in the #Fediverse? Lots of opinions, many strongly held. The fact of the matter, of course, is that businesses *are* connecting to the Fediverse, from news organizations to Meta and everything in between. Would be useful to come up with a set of acceptable things to do for businesses and unacceptable ones. Or maybe a scale. I want to run a #FediForum session on this next week, and brainstorm with you all. Join me? https://fediforum.org 6 comments
@katanova I sympathize with your answer, but I think as we all know from experience, many people here will come up with different answers. A business that runs their own instance (for example) may end up not being able to connect to anything because they didn't understand what the vocal majority wanted. It would be nice to come up with some kind of baseline so that doesn't need to happen.   The free peoples of the internet treat both censorship and business as damage, and routes around them. And yes, there are still free people on the internet. If you don't see us, it's probably because we've routed around you.
@J12t The fact of the matter is businesses will do what businesses wil do, and just because or inspite of the fact that mastodon is federated won't stop them. Remember a business can just set up it's own server with it's own rules.  @J12t I think it's pretty simple. I think companies need to approach the fediverse as a tool for outreach as opposed to promotion. Use it as a tool to advocate for your customers and support their success. |
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@J12t
The simple answer is that it's up to individual instance operators, and from there, it's up to other instance operators to decide whether to federate with instances that host businesses.
Even further, this can be a choice of whether to support/platform businesses depending on whether they're operated ethically.
It used to be that a businesses' reputation was based on its community connections.
@tchambers
@J12t
The simple answer is that it's up to individual instance operators, and from there, it's up to other instance operators to decide whether to federate with instances that host businesses.
Even further, this can be a choice of whether to support/platform businesses depending on whether they're operated ethically.