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 This is raising massive alarm bells for me! Why so vague? US Elections? Change? What do you mean? Are you picking sides? Are you enforcing Trust? Trust in who exactly? Who decides what is safe? e.g. is pro- or anti- abortion 'safe'? Are you asking for funding for a policing role without publishing a set of clear objectives? Why a stuffed toy, and not... a human being? Policy mandates via anthropomorphised polyester mastodon, really?? 10 comments
@unexpectedteapot @kel, What exactly pressure are you talking about? At least with Mastodon, you can operate your own community outside the scope of another person who is running the code and their instance. If you want to run independently without federation, you can do that. Bluesky is different from Mastodon; Mastodon is only a type of instance that you can use to connect to the ActivityPub federation. While Bluesky, modular, tries to become AP on its own, but AFAIK cannot run by itself. @kel @Mastodon I think they are talking about "Every donation fuels the mission to keep Mastodon an independent, safe and ad-free alternative to mainstream for-profit platforms, centrally operated out of the U.S., backed by venture capital. " I think there is more to the mastodon as a script/application to run as an instance than the mastodon as a service that you use. By the way, the one who decided the policy and policed your post in your instance is the administrator of your instance. The first part is interesting and useful thanks! The last two points, I am, already aware of thanks again! The last one is why I like Mastodon, it allows for everyone to find their space and keeps the policing decentralised and accountable within it's own structures and relationships. Is it perfect? No! Is it better than one person having absolute control - hell yeah!! It feels more natural. I am asking what it needs beyond this, I guess? @kel @Mastodon I think they need funds to develop better moderation tools or something like that and also to keep the code more to general people, not to those of capital owners. You know, sometimes, if the software becomes too big, some venture will try to gain profit from it, which made sense since their mission is to make a profit. Other than that, I don't know what they intend to do; at least, that's what I got after reading that link. Yes, I see what you mean! I was led to believe that this immutability was already enshrined in some legal contract somewhere, but I may be mistaken. @i_understand @kel @Mastodon Well, I hope they will donate some money to Mastodon since they are actively using it. |
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@kel welcome to Mastodon, how may I help you?
Seriously though, follow the governance and you can find some answers to your questions. Top-down dictatorship with the top guy surrounding himself with people who are as opaque as they come. It is a tight ship that doesn't care about what any of us think. They are doing this because they are feeling the pressure of Bluesky.