David ChapmanBut, The Right Thing doesn't exist yet, and this does. So the question for potential users is whether to take the risk of building a following here (and encouraging followers to migrate from twitter) when it could easily fail in any of the usual ways, within days or months. I don't have an opinion yet :)
Sonya Mann@Meaningness I feel pretty torn about this, and also uneasy about this instance's policies w/r/t heterodox thinking
For all users, it's worth checking out the mastodon.social content moderation guidelines, at https://mastodon.social/about/more
As @sonya points out, not everyone may be happy with them.
As our host @Gargron point out, if you don't like them, you can run your own instance.
But instances choose who they peer with... so the Mastodon-based network may balkanize.
[EUnomia Trust Factor: 21/100]@Meaningness @sonya I've watched this play out and have had to deal with it since the first time it happened, I may have made the first (long-term) server ever completely blocked by other servers. I've watched how it played out with my own and with other servers if you ever want to know about that.
@Meaningness @sonya
>I don't think it addresses any of the hard issues
tough, but fair
m0n5t3r@meaningness you may want to have a look at other instances (let's say the ones with most interesting people are blocked on mastodon) , there is a list at http://www.fediverse.org/
I understand some people in this new wave are planning to start a new instance, this would actually be great - hell, a bunch of us run single-person or single person + markov bot(s) instances
Also take a look at the other implementations (stock gnusocial, postActiv - which is @maiyannah's fork that is trying to bring sanity to the ancient GS code); they're "bleah, php" instead "bleah, ruby" and they have their warts, but they are reasonably easy to set up for a technical person
P.S. obligatory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1lYU5CA40o
I understand some people in this new wave are planning to start a new instance, this would actually be great - hell, a bunch of us run single-person or single person + markov bot(s) instances
Also take a look at the other implementations (stock gnusocial, postActiv - which is @maiyannah's fork that is trying to bring sanity to the ancient GS code); they're "bleah, php" instead "bleah, ruby" and they have their warts, but they are reasonably easy to set up for a technical person
P.S. obligatory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1lYU5CA40o