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Noah Kennedy

@luna honestly, it seems like a lot of the larger instances have the Reddit Mod problem

kinda wonder if it's best to just not have larger instances, or at least not larger instances which aren't managed in an incredibly open and professional manner

31 Dec 2023 at 21:58 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.despise.computer
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Generic Sadboy 1916

@noah @luna 100%

more smaller instances with tighter community guidelines and good moderation; that way defederation becomes a one off event rather then drama of the month.

31 Dec 2023 at 22:23 | Open on todon.nl
Noah Kennedy

@chriscoreline @luna i don't think loose community guidelines are the issue here really

with small instances where everyone already knows each other pretty well before joining, an informal social contract is enough. if everyone has a shared concept of what a dick is, "don't be a dick" is good enough

if another small instance is mostly dicks, you can defederate them easily because you and your friends are probably not following folks on the other instance anyways

31 Dec 2023 at 22:34 | Open on mastodon.despise.computer
Noah Kennedy

@chriscoreline @luna with bigger instances, defederation is always going to be hard and so you are basically at the mercy of whatever their administration feels like doing

folks are talking about threads, but imo we already have this problem, threads might make it worse but it doesn't create any new issues

31 Dec 2023 at 22:36 | Open on mastodon.despise.computer
Demi Marie Obenour

@chriscoreline @noah @luna Huge numbers of small instances are only really feasible of Mastodon is available as a SaaS. Self-hosting is too hard for nontechnical people.

1 January at 8:17 | Open on infosec.exchange
Generic Sadboy 1916

@alwayscurious @noah @luna

Mastohost is doing a REALLY good (if incomplete) job of Saasing Mastodon, and the software itself is getting easier to deploy every time i convince myself starting an instance is a good idea. and a lot of the issues raised frequently are already on the roadmap (as was demonstrated elsewhere in the thread)

The good thing about the fediverse story is its open and incomplete; we have the ability to shape how it looks, and honestly, i think the letter and spirit of the technology is incompatible with thousands of users per instance under voluntary moderation.

@alwayscurious @noah @luna

Mastohost is doing a REALLY good (if incomplete) job of Saasing Mastodon, and the software itself is getting easier to deploy every time i convince myself starting an instance is a good idea. and a lot of the issues raised frequently are already on the roadmap (as was demonstrated elsewhere in the thread)

1 January at 9:44 | Open on todon.nl
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