the two philosophies: instances as nodes or instances as networks
https://merveilles.town/@lrhodes/110555014534253768 One you could call Just Nodes: Instances are just how you connect to the larger network, and how they're run matters for sustainability but not much else.
The other is Networked Communities: Instances are valuable for the relations and interactions they facilitate locally AND for their ability to connect you to other parts of the network.
@jabgoe2089 well, who said I'm on mastodon? :) Tech journalism not getting their facts straight on fediverse software is definitely a them problem. But since you've already considered these problems fictional then you need not worry about my concern, as it will be surely fictional too.
If you really have to meet a corporation, for the love of Montressor, DON'T SIGN THE NDA (or have it mutually binding
https://social.tchncs.de/@mxrn/110570248528708043 Picking some people as leaders (regardless whether they really are or not ) and giving them privileged access to information, platforms, resources is a standard adversarial tactic to break community organizing.
Put in organizing terms: If you're invited to the boss's office, de-brief afterwards. If you can't de-brief, don't go.
So now we have a bunch of people suspecting their admins, because of course no one knows who was present probably due to the idiotic NDA.
Congratulations you have now helped meta spread the seeds of distrust on the platform just like they wanted, bet you're feeling so happy and smart about it.
Now I'm just posting takes that I vibe with. There are MANY but for this thread I'm picking what I feel is representative to the points that are being made repeatedly across fedi:
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish https://sociale.network/@oblomov/110522409703366548 talks about why a preemptive block/ban/defed from a FBmeta enterprise is necessary: 1. it'll be huge and extremely poorly moderated; 2. it will be a #privacy nightmare, allowing Meta to extensively profile #Fediverse users with greater ease; 3. it will be used to #EEE the Fediverse in the same way their “support” for #RSS and #XMPP was used to wipe them out from the general consciousness with a rug-pull (my full thoughts on this:http://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/credible-threat-1/)
TLDR the big instance mods (and not just Eugen representing Masto but also Dan for Pixelfed and possibly the Calckey(.social) guys gave a cautious optimism to FB/Meta being on the fediverse. The thread i lost was talking about this hypothetical meeting where NDAs are necessary and asking who attended, for real? ETA: Dan posted that he never took any meeting and he will not work with FBmeta https://mastodon.social/@dansup/110567561923047973
In response to this (here's the why) mastodon.art (who does have a reputation for being zealous with who they federate) announced a week-long silence (not a full defed but you don't see activity if you're not already following an account from that instance) followed by defederation: https://dotart.blog/dotart-blog/defederating-from-universeodon. Among reasons cited alongside this: instituting full-text search on their instance as well as having a growth mindset (that can be susceptible to FAANG overtures)
With immediate retaliation, the mod of mstdn.social, stux, offended on behalf of a pal, defederated from mastodon.art. please note the difference in behaviour, and the irresponsibility to his instance members. About 5 hours ago at the time of this post, they walked back on this decision: https://mstdn.social/@stux/110570709034574825 (this is a pretty well-liked mod. Mastodon.art's mod team otoh aren't as nearly as well-liked, owing to their defed habit. That stux couldn't get enough popular backing for their objectively foolish behaviour as well as as the desire to play wait-and-see with FB may be why for the reversal).
If you're an admin, you might want to look into the Authorized Fetch settings on your server (this relates to how boosts travel the fediverse and the kind of metadata mining FB does): https://old.mermaid.town/@futzle/110567687244649351
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