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1. vinzv (vinzv@gnusocial.de)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2017 16:57:00 UTC vinzv

   • Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
   • Apparently a strawman
   @nathanhawks @schestowitz Fun fact: the old and oh-so-crappy GNU Social has a feature exactly for that. I am keeping a transparency report where every admin's intervention is documented and silenced/blocked accounts are listed. (Spoiler: most of them are bots flooding the public timeline.)
   https://gnusocial.de/url/3066817
   • vinzv (vinzv@gnusocial.de)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2017 17:17:21 UTC vinzv

     • Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
     • Apparently a strawman
     @nathanhawks As far as I can see that sounds all reasonable to me.
     That said I don't really get why that is such a huge problem. I've been running "my" instance for more than three years now and never got into any severe troubles just by sticking to three (or more like 2 and a half) cornerstones:
     
     First, the terms of service every user accepted combined with German laws on which the TOS base somehow and I as an admin have to comply with. Simple example would be posting swastika pictures, which is a) against the TOS and b) against German Criminal Code § 86a. https://gnusocial.de/url/3317415
     
     Second cornerstone is the community. There's the local GNU Social group \!gnusocialde where I post service announcements, pose questions and try to get an impression of what users want. Detailed explanations and open discussions in combination with the wiki and the transparency report helped a lot over the whole time. E.g. as @schestowitz started flooding people complained about it. I talked to
   • vinzv (vinzv@gnusocial.de)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2017 17:18:02 UTC vinzv

     • Apparently a strawman
     @nathanhawks him and within 2 minutes we found a solving compromise which everyone seems to be happy with.
   • vinzv (vinzv@gnusocial.de)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2017 17:19:26 UTC vinzv

     • ⚒️Thor, the Norseman⚒️
     • Apparently a strawman
     @thor Yes, that's something GS is failing to offer even after 9 years of existance and Mastodon didn't jump in on that yet. @nathanhawks
   • vinzv (vinzv@gnusocial.de)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2017 17:23:34 UTC vinzv

     • Apparently a strawman
     @nathanhawks So, again it boils down to clear ToS and transparency by admins.
   • vinzv (vinzv@gnusocial.de)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2017 17:25:07 UTC vinzv

     • Apparently a strawman
     @nathanhawks Nah, I think it's some instances both in Mastodon and GS land which have troublesome admins. But in general the fediverse is very chilled, open minded and most admins are doing their best to be *not* behaving like a corporate social network clone.
   • vinzv (vinzv@gnusocial.de)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2017 17:27:19 UTC vinzv

     • ⚒️Thor, the Norseman⚒️
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     • Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
     • Apparently a strawman
     @h That is something Mastodon tries to fix with ActivityPub, as far as I understood it.
     That aside imho *Microblogging* (what both GS and Mastodon are) is always non-private per definition. If you don't want to get something accidently public there are way better channels and platforms. @schestowitz @thor @nathanhawks 
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