The trite version of this is: Being an instance admin/starting one is much more for life than your regular co-opted pagan holiday now associated with a dominant global soft drink brand.

And the cost is if you get it wrong -- the different community management and content moderation parts -- then we collectively lose trust. Protocols won't ever fix that. They might make good management and moderation *easier* through tools, but they'll always be human decisions.

@danhon @fraying 💯 to all of this. The one thing I'd add and meant to earlier on one of @fraying's threads (but just totally overloaded) is that topological determinism *is a thing* in the corporate-owned monopoly scenario. There is only *one* outcome there, and it's "do what the landlord says." If you're lucky, he'll agree with you, but it's Machiavellian *at best*.

Here, we at least have the *possibility* to break out of that. Not guaranteed by any stretch, but *possible*.

@fraying @danhon but I didn't say it ends badly! I just said it ends, inevitably, with a landlord that you hope you agree with.

To think that this is okay is a colonial mindset, in my mind. It's hard; this is our world. Maybe it's better for most people. Indigenous people around here would disagree. 💔

@blaine @danhon Blane, you’re purposely misrepresenting what I’ve said and you’ve offended me by calling me colonial when I’ve said nothing of the sort.

It’s almost like federation hasn’t stopped you from acting like you’re on Twitter, which was my original point.

@fraying @danhon I mean, same. 💜

We've had this out before and patched it up. Let's not go down the other path.

Our job right now is to hold eachother to account. @harper has been bullying me, in a nice way, on Signal, for a while. It's good, and I appreciate the challenge.

I'm not saying you're a bad person. Far from it. You're the opposite, and I have so much respect for you.

@blaine @danhon @harper show me where I said anything like that.

And ad hominems aren’t “holding to account.”