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Jan Wildeboer 😷
In the decentralised world, the power should be concentrated at the user - not the instance admin. Federation is a first step towards empowering users, when migration between instances becomes as cheap as possible - ideally at zero cost for the user. You vote for an instance with your membership and the admin should know that "their" citizens can exercise their right to leave at any time, for any reason. (thread)
Admins should serve their community in whatever way they want - as dictator, as laissez-faire - and they should make the rules very clear and upfront. But that's where their power should end and they should be held accountable by their citizens. In a federated (mastodon) world, admins have a lot of power. They can silently block domains, users and content. As a citizen/user I have to trust them to act on my behalf and be aligned with my expectations.
And as a user/citizen I should be able to transparently see those decisions. And base my decision of staying or leaving on that information. Currently there is no real mechanism for this kind of respecting user/citizens expectations. This should become something we need to spend some brain cycles on. No admin should be able to hold a user/citizen and their content hostage. With that - discussion opened :)
Peter Jakobs ⛵@jwildeboer did the idea of creating a collective or mutual company (Genossenschaft) to operate an instance actually ever go anywhere?
naught101@jwildeboer coincidentally, this should also apply to nations. Why shouldn't people from the global south be able to emigrate to rich countries? Especially when the global north exports it's poverty to their countries of origin via free trade policies.
The flip side of this is that all citizens have a responsibility to hold to account those in power in their nation/server.
Mahmoud - محمود عبدالجواد@jwildeboer interesting point of view.
crystal pixel ⟢ 🕊 ❄@jwildeboer The easiest way is to set up an organization that will manage the instance, take care of all moderation issues, and handle user involvement. Perhaps with the support of other well-known software.
The role of admin is reduced to technical stuff.
The role of admin is reduced to technical stuff.
Geri ™@jwildeboer It's anarchy really x