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Mad Villain Apr 29, 2024

So, over the weekend, I’ve been talking a lot about the need to take Mastdon into a new community-focused direction, so I took time to write down some thoughts.

Spread this far and wide because it’s time for us to do something else.

https://h-i.works/2024/04/a-case-for-community.html

Please feel free to reach out with any questions or comments (in good faith) because this is a convo we need to have.

And I’m ready to get started today.

A Case for Community

Because it should be easy.

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The Laughing Muse

@are0h I'm willing to help out, but for the next six months I'm concentrating on immigrating. (Yeah, I know. So much for helping.)

This is a very good idea, though. The fediverse is all kinds of software, not just Mastodon. (I'm on Misskey.) And while it's good that people & communities can create their own Mastodon servers where they can set and enforce the moderation guidelines, that's not 100% safety if Mastodon opens up to MetaBad and X-crement and lets them climb in and tinker with the guts/user data.

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Mad Villain Apr 29, 2024

@thelaughingmuse Ha, well, just let me know when you have time.

There needs to be different versions of Mastodon because this one-size-fits-all just isn’t a feasible proposition for a diverse and global environment.

I’m hoping once I get my project up and running, it will be forked and customized a million times so we have multiple options for deciding what kind of space we want.