Mastodawn

Roni Rolle Laukkarinen Aug 5, 2023

During my one year activity on the #Fediverse I've now seen at least four instance admins quitting from being an admin or shutting down their server. Half of these cases were admins being dickheads and the rest of them were mostly about users being dickheads leading admin getting burned out.

Both outcomes are unfortunate, but the latter makes me sad. Why do we have to harass and doxx an admin here for such pseudetical reasons like extensive open text search feature? I don't get humans sometimes.

I repeat: We are not free from toxicity on the Fediverse. Be kind. Make a chance.

#MastoAdmin #Fediverse #SocialMedia

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katzenberger

@rolle A bit of expectation management can't hurt and might reduce the dependency on (not: necessity of) voluntary kindness.

Before joining an instance, I'd like to know what the admins and mods are standing for, and they'd probably like it if people signed up only after they've read the About page, at least.

House rules matter way more on the #fediverse than elsewhere. They should neither be copy-pasted, nor be considered optional, because neither side really cared.