I’m not sure if you can quote a post & offer commentary. But I saw the linked post (below) about the Dutch East India sailors finding Australia. It reminded me of a great book I read earlier this year: “Batavia’s Graveyard” by Mike Dash.
The Batavia wrecked on a spit of land. One of the survivors with unorthodox religious views started a bit of a cult & led a group that murdered and subjugated for fun, sex, & profit.
All right, I don’t think linking the post that inspired mine worked very well. Because my thoughts weren’t closely enough related, without a preview, readers would likely expect the link to go to something about the Batavia.
Instead it’s a post about the VOC and Australia.
@rossabaker Makes sense!
One of my favorite features at the old place was the option to turn off retweets. I was interested in what they had to say. Not so much in their amplification of others.
This isn’t quite the same thing, but it feels related.
@dougmasson Strong agree on the old place.
Here, aggressive boosting is a recommended for discovery, because search is limited and there's no algorithmic "you might like". I'm enjoying the new culture now, but scaling it will be a challenge.
@rossabaker My vague concern is that increased population will attract bad actors. I don’t know if that will take the form of hacking, impersonation, overwhelming spam/bots or what.
But the comparison of the various instances to different email servers made me think there’s a reason that small email servers (as opposed to gmail etc.) are the exception. Bad actors have made email server administration challenging.
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