 Hug your #FediAdmin today. There's a lot of shit flying in the #Fediverse lately and a lot of times perspective seems to get lost. Yes, there are things we need to talk about, and yes there are things we will not agree on. And that's okay. But leave the pitchforks and torches out of this. Fedi admins put in the hours and effort and emotion into making fedi happen. Sometimes they make decisions we might not agree with. We should criticize, but we should not pile-on. 44 comments
 @rysiek saw someone(s) responding to moderation decisions with things like "drink bleach" and like. My dude. None of this rises to that level. @inherentlee @rysiek Holy shit. I can't see anything on Fedi that would warrant such a response  @trebach @inherentlee @rysiek I came on last night just in time to see someone suggest that "we should all" send one particular admin images of his cat being tortured. None of this is tolerable, at all.  @MagicLike @ar @rysiek I see. It looks to me like a clash between people what the Fediverse is or should be going forward. It saddens me that some people are ready to push others into misery just to prove their point. I feel embarrassed and bad about my role in this latest kerfuffle. A question was asked, I responded strongly as I often do, and that got its own life. I am disappointed in myself (because I should have been more careful with words, with the platform I have around here), but also in fedi (because we all should know to be excellent to each other). No, nobody is trying to "sell out" fedi. Nobody is being "paid off" by some corpo. There is no need for digging trenches and laying barbed wire. There is a need for a longer conversation about the stuff that the kerfuffle relates to. But it has to be a conversation, not a shouting match. People are throwing accusations and making conjectures that have nothing to do with reality! And we need to be able to have this conversation without pushing out people most engaged in maintaining the infrastructure we use to have this conversation. There is a way to do all that, but for that we need to take a step back, and take a deep breath. @rysiek Then agree to block Meta for now if it is released in the meantime. We can all have that talk then unblock or not once an open, honest, calm conversation with the wider Fediverse, not just a select few instance runners can be had. @Matt5sean3 that's the longer conversation we need to have. But I do not want to have it in this thread, as I've been having it, pretty heated, in many other threads over the last few days. I would appreciate if we could leave this one thread for focusing on calming down a bit and lowering the temperature, please. @rysiek And that was my suggestion for an easily reversible action to allow that calming to happen. If nothing else it will let people know they are not being brushed off. The calming cannot happen without something like that. @Matt5sean3 no, I think it is reasonable to ask people to stop pulling stuff out of thin air and accusing random people of stuff for which there is not a shred of corroboration. If you want to discuss blocks, pledges, etc, I would appreciate if you respected my request from before and started your own thread. @rysiek Then enjoy the continued furor. Quite fundamentally, telling people to calm down when you refuse to act to address the concerns is not a practical stance. There are secrets being kept, that we know. It is by design that people are left only with speculation. @fifilamoura yes, this is the broader conversation, that I am not necessarily wanting to have in this particular thread. There's plenty of threads about that, I'd like this one to be about calming down, taking a step back, and taking a deep breath.   Oh, and you know what the best way to defend from fedi admins "selling out" — which again, is *not* happening! — would be? Supporting them financially (if you are in a position to do so). If you are in fact in a position to do so, go to your instance's about page, and check if there is any way to chip in. And either way, hug your fedi admin.  @rysiek :flan_beer: to @jerry thanks for being our benevolent dictator! Also kudos to @stux and @calculsoberic for being awesome!  @rysiek The pile-on that has been going on is ugly and thank you for saying something. Admns put in a lot of time, money, and energy. I’ve only been here since October and I really think those who recently joined should think twice before making accusations about people they know nothing about. Hope people cool down.  Some fedi admins make fedi happen, others break fedi. Not all of them are good, and not all of them are bad. If so many admins put so much effort into making decisions for other people then let's decentralize this case too. Let's get rid of admins at all. And let everyone decide. @nk as much as I would love fedi to be ever more decentralized, I am also a sysadmin and I understand how much work running an instance, even a single user instance, takes. So I will continue to appreciate the feid admins, and you do you. @rysiek If #FediAdmins are officially accepting hugs then I am sending one to @thomas coz he's the admin of metalhead.club and he works so hard and he rocks 😊 |
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@rysiek and we need to learn that death threats are not appropriate ways to voice criticism, apparently. 🫠