This is a clearer way to express what instances are on Mastodon.
The advantage of Mastodon (controlling your data more, more resistant to single-owner issues and more) gets muddled by talking about the reality of it sloppily.
Like how "it's federated" is less intelligible than "like email, you can be on anybody's server (the @example.com part) and still communicate fine with people on another company or person's server."
Saying that, and then this bit about choosing moderators, might help.
That sounds misleading, an instance or server can have several moderators, you don't get to choose.
Maybe community, island,...
@jcast they function as a moderation team, an organization.
Throwing details at people who don’t understand the broad strokes (and frankly don’t care about the details) is part of why adoption of open web standards-based social media and social networks is not happening faster.
It is not misleading, it is true and also simplified.
How do we know: the definition of the word “organization.”
David August ❌👑
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