Fascinating to see tech people learn that setting up...

Fascinating to see tech people learn that setting up a Mastodon server, keeping it secure, paying the bills for hosting and the 24/7 devops...

...is the easy part.

Proper steering of a community and keeping tabs on moderation is 95% of the work.

Don't start a server if you're not willing to learn and do that.

Like 26 Nov 2022 at 16:43 | Open on hachyderm.io

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

@thomasfuchs Furthermore, those name folks think moderation in 95% banning nazis, spammers and other obvious undesirables. They're maybe 5%, the other 95% of your time and energy is in getting rid of extremely popular abusers with massive fan clubs full of averagely normal people

26 Nov 2022 at 16:46 | Open on mstdn.social

Lil_bit_lzbth

@thomasfuchs
And that moderation is often an unpaid and extremely thankless task. People almost never contact customer service to say thank you, and you can tell many have not considered that before becoming a host.

26 Nov 2022 at 16:46 | Open on mstdn.social

Christopher White

@thomasfuchs That’s part of the reason if I make a server it’ll be for me and MAYBE a couple other people. Moderating myself is already a full-time job.

26 Nov 2022 at 16:47 | Open on mastodon.social

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