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@lambadalambda well whatever mastodon did it seems to be drawing in new users. I don't especially care about the cool kids because they won't care about freedom and will switch to the next cool proprietary system the nanosecond it becomes available.
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screw the mass media
(Pardon my French)
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@detectivehyde @lambadalambda I think the complaint here is that the mass media (not that I pay much attention to them) are reporting the fediverse as if it was some cool new thing, rather than something which has been around for a long time. Superficial reporting by commentators who don't know what they're talking about (like the Mark Twain quote) are to be expected though.
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@detectivehyde @lambadalambda maybe, maybe not. It's really a network topology problem, and federation handles that better. i.e. over time the physical network comes to represent the various affinity groups. The silos force different interest groups together into a homogenous model and that makes fighting a lot more likely.
Not that the fediverse is all love and tranquility, but at least users don't get pushed around in quite the same way.
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@detectivehyde in general I find the fediverse to be quite civil, but that's only because I choose who to follow and random posts don't appear in my stream as they would on Twitter. I'm only hosting myself and then federating with the rest. Worst case, I could block an entire instance from the !Freedombone control panel if I needed to.
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@lambadalambda @maloki on the plus side that new users are getting introduced to the idea of the fediverse is a kind of victory in itself. Usually these kinds of ideas are entirely absent from the mainstream and so the ordinary user never encounters them. On the minus side 40000 users for one admin to support is far too many. It's easy to predict that this won't be financially sustainable for mastodon.social and the maintainer will either have to turn to the dark side or ask users to migrate to other servers, causing inevitable disappointment and perhaps some bad press.
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@lambadalambda @maloki you can imagine the situation. You join the fancy new socnet, get cosy and start chatting merrily with your new friends and then suddenly the admin is telling you to leave or pay up. If I were that user I'd be saying something like "this is worse than Twitter! Not even censorship, just ousting".
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@bob Are there any good articles out there that explain the responsibility of running a node? Anyone who opens the doors to users on their node should know that 1. That it comes with (moral) obligations that can't be taken lightly. 2. Nodes should keep running even after their not trendy 3. Long term maintenance is not always fun 4. Server costs must be payed.. forever 5. When you grow old and tired you need to find an Admin that understands these same principles to take over for you. 6. More users means 24/7 7. You ain't gonna get payed. 8. Those users who sign up in droves will never value your dedication 9. If you fail you will feel bad. If you don't feel bad you should never have set up a node in the first place.
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Maybe @drymer might think a page about admin responsibilities would be good to add to the documentation? @mangeurdenuage@loadaverage.org
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