Matt CrosslinEarlier this month I found out the hard way that "what happens on Slack stays on Slack" is not true. Mastodon feels a bit more private since it is new, but I wonder how long it will be before screenshots of what is said here are broadcast out of here to people's friends and employers? Seems I am seeing people share some really incredible, deep stuff. But I wonder how long that will last?
james@grandeped it's really gonna be an issue soon I think. The people coming in seem increasingly far away from the core friend groups that started a few days ago and aren't aware of boundaries in the same ways. we have lots of plans for making the community not fall apart, but it might be really hard to implement them in time
Christina Hendricks@Triplefox @grandeped I feel the urgency and the need. Is there anything any of us users can do?
Kate@clhendricksbc @Triplefox @grandeped I feel the same. Can those of us from outside the "core friend groups" help in any way?
@katebowles @grandeped @clhendricksbc i thought about it and the best i can come up with is to link people within the current network in a variety of ways so that it can reconstruct itself without relying on this platform. if what we're going for is preservation of the community, that is.
@Triplefox @grandeped @clhendricksbc Does this partly depend on what "the community" consists of. Reading introductions and the public timeline I can see how important this space is and to be honest I feel pretty protective of that.
So part of the question about community is the question about what a community does, not just what a community is. That I think is what's exercising those of us who came here together.
Fredrik Graver 🎥🥌@katebowles @Triplefox @grandeped @clhendricksbc It does boil down to trust and responsiblity; trust in each other, responsibility to the community.
So far I find myself trusting people here, and that in turns increases my sense of responsibility. It seems to be that way for others too, and I hope that will continue.