Mastodawn

Alistair Davidson Dec 16, 2024

Mastodon should ask you to pick a "moderator" not an "instance".

The latter is obscure technical detail. The former is about people, and power, and explainable to anyone.

"You pick which person or organisation you want to decide who and what is banned. You can change it later."

@moh_kohn That's actually a really good point 😅 Especially for the small instances, since these are basically "micro-dictatorships".
I was somehow quite confused by the "instance" word when I first heard of Mastodon and the Fediverse, since that decentralised social networks wasn't something I was familiar with. I paniced and ended up just joining mastodon.social since that seemed safer (not a terrible decision though, seeing what kind of instances some of the Twitter migrants ended up at, haha)