All of the people who would be affected by any proposed change to the social networking standards are _right here_ talking on this thing _right now_.  Any alternative is just going to be a subset of those people at best.  If you want to discuss changes I'm going to consider at all, discuss them here, or don't bother.

@maiyannah But they might get involved in the conversation before there's a common front by the admins/devs! They might have an opinion before the admins/devs are ready to hand down an edict! *eye rolling so hard they stick*

@sungo Great minds think alike and all that:
https://plateia.org/notice/267391

@maiyannah I remember when a decision to create an admin-only instance and to use Discourse heavily happened a couple months ago. It was entirely about controlling the narrative. There was a distinct desire for a lack of transparency about the ongoing operations of instances.

Well, and making sure the messages didn't propagate to the GS side of the fediverse because god help us if the OLD TIMERS had thoughts.

@sungo By splitting the community like that they empower a few at the cost of the many.  It's literally the oppression dynamic.  I reject it.