@Crell @jerry I think the idea that an otherwise terrible...

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@Crell @jerry I think the idea that an otherwise terrible person had like 20 years ago holds up pretty well: paying for initial access results in you having an investment in a service that encourages you to follow the rules to protect that investment. You can see this with how Something Awful has turned into a stable and mature forum with varied subforums and at least one thread for anything you can think of.

Of course the downside to that is that if the person setting the rules is terrible then the culture will be terrible and require a coup to fix, but... that seems to be a universal part of the human condition.

Like 1 August at 14:23 | Wall-to-wall | Open on infosec.exchange

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Larry Garfield

@teknogrot @jerry "The culture of an organization is defined as the worst behavior its leadership is willing to tolerate."

No amount of federation will change that dynamic.

1 August at 14:31 | Open on phpc.social

Arquinsiel Teknogrot

@Crell I think it does change it, but not for the better. As @jerry pointed out, the nature of the fediverse can hide the behaviour from some people resulting in a de-facto tolerance of behaviour worse than the leadership (in this case again @jerry) would actually accept, while denying them the tools to do something about it.

Federation may actually not be a good idea at all for social media.

1 August at 14:34 | Open on infosec.exchange

Mark Saltveit

@teknogrot @Crell @jerry
Metafilter has (or had?) a $5 one-time entry fee that served the same purpose pretty well.

1 August at 16:19 | Open on mastodonapp.uk