Gregory's Server
@kissane Excellent post. đź‘Ź
“To begin with, the best time to move from one home server to another (“migrate instances”) on Mastodon is never. The second-best time is as soon as possible, because the longer you wait, the more you stand to lose in. But until you’ve been on Mastodon for a while, you aren’t going to know how well you get along with your server’s mod policy and administrators, and how your server’s reputation will affect your experience. It’s not ideal!”
Dilemma for small instances
@kissane Something like your suggestion,
“building reputation systems (yes! I mean it!) to help guide server choices, with appropriately sophisticated mechanisms for handling maladaptive behaviors and bad actors.”
is needed.
One risk I see though is that something simple that is adopted by everyone will lead to cascade blocking of instances based on relatively little evidence. Such systems need to be fed by actual experiences of admins/mods and not just a big chain of “you block so I block”.