What should we call a group of fediverse servers working together in moderation & community practices?
I've been using Bloc in quotes, because I'm not sure if that's the right or most correct word for it.
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Voting ended 11 January at 19:44.
Emelia 👸🏻
What should we call a group of fediverse servers working together in moderation & community practices? I've been using Bloc in quotes, because I'm not sure if that's the right or most correct word for it. Anonymous poll
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Bloc
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Alliance
12
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Coalition
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Union
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Voting ended 11 January at 19:44. 18 comments
Emelia 👸🏻
You could maybe also consider the Mastodon Server Covenant as being a "bloc" of servers e.g., they could publish a federation "accept list" of all the servers that have agreed to it, and have a process for appeals or challenges, and then you could subscribe to that and only accept instances that agree with the covenant's terms.
Emelia 👸🏻
For me, "coalition" felt a little weird because it implies to me a political power, where as I'd say "bloc" invokes trading power which is perhaps closer to what we're doing: trading Activity's between different ActivityPub servers. "union" could work too.
Fluffy Kitty Cat
@Raccoon @thisismissem agreed. it might also help admins talk things through with admins so people reach for the defederate button less often
FinchHaven
This is why I picked "alliance" Webster: "2: an association to further the common interests of the members specifically : a confederation of nations by treaty" versus coalition: Webster: "2: a temporary alliance of distinct parties, persons, or states for joint action" Dunno... Alliance just has a better ring to it, I guess...
Daniël Franke 🏳️🌈
(Mostly because I liked it when all those left wing action groups called themselves the league of something or the other)
Daniël Franke 🏳️🌈
Using your same example, you have international leagues of football as well. See the champion's league.
Cass M 🇨🇦 :mstdn:
@thisismissem I picked coalition then switched to alliance but coalition seems better if it's informal.
Joel Krampus Meador 🌰
@thisismissem Ring would please me more for the throwback and other uses it echoes. I like all the options you presented though, especially bloc and coalition
Liminal witch 🧙♀️ Sarah
@thisismissem group? May be those group will name themselves and in couple of years we'll have Alliance, Horde, Federation, Union, Hierarchy, Collective and Space.
Boris Mann
@thisismissem a co-op ;) I don’t know that this needs to or should be labeled. I totally understand that technically one might want to describe something. But do we have labels for “working together” or other relationships, aka “it’s complicated” ;) |
The idea is that in the near future or even present day of the Fediverse, we'll see groups of servers, moderators, and communities working together to define the boundaries that they want & accept.
e.g., FediPact could be considered a "bloc" of server's who all agree not to federate with Meta, that'd be an example of such.
#moderation #fediverse #TrustAndSafety