Keith Axline

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Keith AxlineNov 26, 2022
Graham Sutherland / PolynomialNov 25, 2022

if you've ever messed up a dimension or a hole position on something you're building, don't be too hard on yourself.

at least you're not the Cisco design engineer who caused an entire product line recall by placing the mode button (which resets the switch if held) directly above an RJ45 port.

Keith AxlineNov 26, 2022
Brennan Center for JusticeNov 26, 2022
Future Americans will look back on this as the era when billionaires ruled U.S. elections. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/billionaires-provided-15-percent-funding-midterms
Billionaires Provided 15 Percent of Funding for the Midterms

This is not a healthy situation.

Brennan Center for Justice
Keith AxlineNov 26, 2022
Show threaddesertratNov 26, 2022
@kaxline @compthink @Chronotope @craignewmark @jeffjarvis @danhon the governance aspect is so messy! Glad we've been experimenting with it for a while to see what works and doesn't. Still so much to learn too! Makes experimentation a little less daunting. ;)
Keith AxlineNov 26, 2022
Show threadMark CrowleyNov 26, 2022
@desertrat @Chronotope @craignewmark @jeffjarvis @danhon there is no organization. if you try to create one, you'll inevitably never get a significant percentage of instances to use join it, then you'll get pressure from the official moderators over the rogue ones...why even start the cycle if its working.
Keith AxlineNov 26, 2022
Show threaddesertratNov 26, 2022
@compthink @Chronotope @craignewmark @jeffjarvis @danhon That's why you create an organization that is independently governed & then if instances want support, they can reach out to the organization of community managers & work w/them. There's no rogue mods, its all in the open. I work in decentralized communities & have for a while. We use governance and collective action to solve problems. My understanding is that its not working, or won't at scale as more orgs make instances. Why not try?
Keith AxlineNov 26, 2022
Show threaddesertratNov 26, 2022
@Chronotope @craignewmark @jeffjarvis @danhon instead of sending funds to the individual servers and risking the monetization threats/misperceptions, why not create an organization of trained moderators/community managers and those moderators are funded by that external org and individual servers can “request/hire” them from that community management org. That way the funds stay out of indie servers completely.
Keith AxlineNov 26, 2022
Show threadCraig NewmarkNov 25, 2022
@Chronotope @jeffjarvis @danhon
I'm on it, talking to some folks who are much smarter than me regarding both Mastodon and the nonprofit world. Need to put my affairs in order.
Keith AxlineNov 26, 2022
Show threadAram Zucker-ScharffNov 25, 2022

@craignewmark @jeffjarvis Are you thinking about a way to investigate and help others understand efforts or a specific platform support 501c3? I dunno about Jeff, but the more I see the strain that Mastodon instances admins' are under, I have been thinking more and more about the need to compensate them for their work to keep this corner of social platforms more maintainable.

I worry that we're replicating the mistake many make about moderation not having value.

Keith AxlineNov 26, 2022
Jeff JarvisNov 25, 2022
With Twitter's collapse, funders should start helping build up federated discourse: supporting development of better security, of moderation aids, of proposals for affordances welcoming to Black Twitter and other communities. Stop thinking top down. Start thinking emergent.
Stop thinking about how to help newspapers. Start thinking about how to help communities and culture speaking for themselves. This is a place to start.
Keith AxlineNov 26, 2022
Show threadDavid ColarussoNov 12, 2022
40 years old!!! Talking with folks in the comments, I’ve come to realize that this ][+ (one of ~380,000) is AT LEAST fourty years old. Wow, just wow. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_Plus
Apple II Plus - Wikipedia