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You can already control who and what you see by running your own server. If you choose to use someone else's infrastructure, don't act surprised when you're subject to their rules.
I'd agree with you, until I saw my own server on a quite popular blocklist because "admin is a cryptobro"
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You can already control who and what you see by running your own server. If you choose to use someone else's infrastructure, don't act surprised when you're subject to their rules.
I'd agree with you, until I saw my own server on a quite popular blocklist because "admin is a cryptobro"
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Ironically, I found the opposite. Tumblr users will pay Tumblr to "blaze" posts of other users, sending the post to everyone on the platform. I don't think there are many platforms in which users are willing to give the platform money. If you asked me whether I'd give money to support Reddit, I'd say just let it crash and burn.
Very few social platforms have figured out that the right way to get money is from the readers supporting the posters, not from the posters themselves. Reddit gold is a pale version of this. Neither Twitter nor Bluesky show any signs of getting it.
If we're talking hypothetical right ways, I think what "social" media gets wrong is to envision an anarchy for its users. People are never equal in a society. A teenager isn't the same thing as an elder, nor is a doctor the same thing as a nurse.
I think I've read before that anarchy doesn't work because eventually people find someone who is reliable and naturally that person becomes their authority on the subject, creating an hierarchy.
Social media tries to put all users in the same bucket even when it's well-known that most users belong in the "never posts anything" bucket while very few users belong in the "power user" bucket. There are passive users and active users.
While hierarchies can become ugly fast, I don't think resigning on implementing them in any form is the right answer, specially now that everyone is on the Internet.
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I'd agree with you, until I saw my own server on a quite popular blocklist because "admin is a cryptobro"
The thing is, other people are also allowed to control who and what they see. You're not entitled to an audience.
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I'd agree with you, until I saw my own server on a quite popular blocklist because "admin is a cryptobro"
The thing is, other people are also allowed to control who and what they see. You're not entitled to an audience.
And why should the users of my instance be penalized because someone found some reason to dislike me? If someone wants to block me, fine. But having the influence to push a whole server out of the wider network definitely counts as "too much power".
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The thing is, other people are also allowed to control who and what they see. You're not entitled to an audience.
How many of these people are going through these blocklists to properly verify the claims? And why should the users of my instance be penalized because someone found some reason to dislike me? If someone wants to block me , fine. But having the influence to push a whole server out of the wider network definitely counts as "too much power".
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The thing is, other people are also allowed to control who and what they see. You're not entitled to an audience.
You're right, people do have the right to block whatever they want. But it's just shitty that someone else made the call, and now presumably many people are impacted. There's no recourse.
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The thing is, other people are also allowed to control who and what they see. You're not entitled to an audience.
How many of these people are going through these blocklists to properly verify the claims? And why should the users of my instance be penalized because someone found some reason to dislike me? If someone wants to block me , fine. But having the influence to push a whole server out of the wider network definitely counts as "too much power".
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I don't believe there is anything stopping someone from starting a managed Mastodon service.
It’s absurdly expensive to offer, because none of the major implementations support serving multiple domains in a single process, so you end up with a lot of duplication.
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It’s absurdly expensive to offer, because none of the major implementations support serving multiple domains in a single process, so you end up with a lot of duplication.
Takahe is the only one that is doing it, but unfortunately Andrew stopped working on it.
> TLDR: I am looking for new developers and maintainers for Takahē who want to help in exchange for my mentorship, or I'll have to sunset the project.
https://aeracode.org/2023/11/06/life-critical-side-projects/
The repo is still being updated so it doesn't look like it's in too much danger: