@rysiek @stinerman as an admin/mod, Mastodon is fine, on balance, but I really see some of the decision making as a limiting factor on:

- adoption by new communities
- sense of safety
- feelings of independence from corporate interference
- how long some volunteers will hang on or burn out or switch tech

Like all the getting excited about integrating with Facebook. Can't help asking "why does this lad think people are here?"

@rysiek @stinerman

BDFL is often fine for very mechanical things like a programming language. Even then it requires being an accomplished domain expert. Someone with so much trust that it's not like anyone is going to disagree much anyway.

Fedi software has a cyclic dependency of voluntary labour by people who trust a dev to do work that supports them. I can''t think of any free software that has that dynamic to this extent.

To survive, it needs to be more dialogue, less monologue.

@Gargron I'm aware, but is that largely streamlining an existing practice which people still need to be here a while to understand?

I've used shared blocklists.

I'd like the company to explicitly direct people to block lists of known problem servers, will that happen?

Will we move beyond the likelihood of what happened the DAIR server happening again, where people join Fedi on the promise of how progressive it is, and get put on blast by neonazis?

@Gargron more explicitly - Mastodon the company should start directly alerting people to which servers they REALLY need to think about blocking, and needs to do it at the install stage, and afterwards as routine.

@Gargron well I would politely suggest that standards of conduct and safety are going to mean more to people than interoperability over the next while.

Perhaps now is a good time to address how to make the out-of-the-box Mastodon experience one where people aren't exposed to white nationalists by default.

You have a chance to do something.

@Gargron hang on, aren't you the boy that said it was a Big W that people can follow the US president from Fedi?

@jsit ah feck. I recognise it.
I refuse to use any part of the internet til I think of it. Well I suppose I could so some work while I wait for it to come to me.

I know how it's sung like, just need to get the actual song.

@jsit scrolling the timeline in Google Photos

I see the EU is inviting tenders for how to create their age verification to access sites (the big 3 porn ones) thing work.

Have to be honest, I don't think it will work.

Also, porn and the internet being what they are, I'm not sure driving curious kids to the smaller sites is actually a good idea.

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/funding/call-tenders-development-consultancy-and-support-age-verification-solution

The immune system really loves making other systems in the body crash for the laugh

With everything going on in the world, handbags between the Basecamp lad and the Wordpress lad is the mindless entertainment I need.