David Harrison 🇨🇦Mar 23

@stephanie @ivanvector @PaulBusch @erin I agree, but mstdn.ca got “caught” by that large Twitter exodus and ended up growing very fast very quick, mostly because the name Chad had picked made it sound like THE instance from Canadians. So it’s still one person’s instance, with some volunteers, and now we’re seeing the problem.

If it had stayed around 200 users, it would have likely been fine, but it’s too large to not have a proper structure around it.

Show threaderinMar 23
@david @stephanie @ivanvector @PaulBusch my issue is that he promised structure. He promised governance. And it was his actions that prevented it from happening.
Show threadDavid Harrison 🇨🇦
@erin @stephanie @ivanvector @PaulBusch Agreed. I remember being in a town hall when many people were pushing for structure and were willing to participate. The interest was there.
Mar 23 at 11:37pmWeb
Show threadMichael GemarMar 23
@david @erin @stephanie @ivanvector @PaulBusch At the micro level, decentralized systems are more affected by the personalities and quirks of the individuals who run their little fiefdoms. But at the macro level, centralized systems are more affected by the personalities and quirks of the individuals who run the whole show.
Show threaderinMar 24
@david I had DOZENS of people like over 30 people want to participate in my volunteer survey I made to help construct how the governance would operate. We ended up a couple new moderators out of the group, never got to the other pieces. To no fault of any of the moderators, we were all eager to get started but kept being halted. @stephanie @ivanvector @PaulBusch