 As I finish the new @pixelfed app onboarding screens, there are a few places where I want to make it easy for users to contact instance admins via email. This would require all @pixelfed instances to set this field in the admin dashboard so its available via the instance endpoint, but would only work if they all did this. Maybe I could make this a requirement (for our app), and verify it periodically by sending an email to the address and unlisting servers that don't comply. Thoughts? 9 comments
@dansup @pixelfed Good thing for more trust and additionally it could create awareness that pixelfed is not only a single server. but also on admin side it could provide more responsibility for the users on the instance. @dansup @pixelfed There will always be people who want to opt-out because of reasons. That should be possible, it would be a bit irresponsible to have a public service without a way to contact the admin, but that is their responsibility. Forcing people to do the right thing hardly ever works well. @dansup @pixelfed General agreement. Running a server, whilst done voluntarily, still has its responsibilities. We should have as many 'good' servers as possible, but few good ones is better than many bad ones. Maybe more can be done to support admins and thus to encourage this? No idea how this is best done though. Sorry.  @dansup @pixelfed I think making an email address mandatory (and verifying it, maybe with a magic link now and then) to be listed in an onboarding dialog is okay. But if you (as server admin) care for a more private space you can simply skip this at the cost of not being listed during onboarding with your instance. Since every responsible service provider should share a way to be contacted (my personal opinion) there would be no harm in making this way visible. |
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It's not really much different to having a postmaster email address.