@kissane "I think the other piece of this is probably...

@kissane "I think the other piece of this is probably the idea of organizing people into interest-based instances, which I think is fundamentally flawed, but that’s a subject for another time."

Fully agreed! I'm a mod on an interest-based server, and I frankly think it's a horrible model. 2/3 of the people I follow are on other servers, so what good are interest servers?

Interest-centric *indexers* could be useful. But picking a server is really picking your mod team. That's non-obvious.

Like 28 Jul 2023 at 22:46 | Wall-to-wall | Open on phpc.social

4 comments

Tassoman

When things go bad, you feel the urge to open your own instance or just to catch up with friendly people

28 Jul 2023 at 23:20 | Open on orwell.fun

Matt

@Crell @kissane Well following people on other servers is sort of the point, so I don't think this is really a criticism.

Problem is, interest-based servers are needlessly restrictive as people have many interests, not many people are defined solely by one interest.

Other than wanting specific moderation or a sort of broad community (LGBT or PoC, for example), I think the best type of instance is regional. I was on the UK instance for a bit and it was enjoyable actually seeing local stuff.

28 Jul 2023 at 23:22 | Open on mastodon.social

Larry Garfield

@mattswift @kissane That's my point, yes. If I want to follow "space stuff", there's no reason I must be on space-stuff.social or whatever. Aside from the issue of setting up cross server follows, which are just a flat out bug to fix. So space-stuff.social doesn't really need to exist.

28 Jul 2023 at 23:24 | Open on phpc.social

Ricardo Tavares

@Crell @kissane Haven’t found any issues with just having multiple accounts, specially when using the Metatext app.

28 Jul 2023 at 23:30 | Open on phpc.social