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Arun Raghavan
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So I've moved!
I live at hachyderm.io now. Unfortunately, I can't recommend mastodon.cloud anymore. The typical user might not be able to navigate what I did. I'll explain in the next post behind a Content Warning, because it's not nice.
But new neighbours, what's good! 🙋🏿♂️
yuvipandaAnyone know where I can buy a black silk shirt in the Bay Area?
The question to would-be Mastodon hosts such as myself is whether we're prepared for the labour. While I mull over this, I'm increasingly impressed by the amount of thought that seems to have gone into the social.coop organisation.
And finally, when there is conflict, you can assume you will have a few angry mobs at your door. People who agree with your moderation actions, people who don't, people who will split hairs on the what and why.
For all that Twitter moderation fails miserably and often, someone else is doing this thankless work behind the protection of a central organisation.
Then, there's the matter of content coming into your instance. I assume some common list of spam will emerge over time, that's the "easy" part.
We're used to casual retweets, and different people might have different notions of what they verify, what needs to be behind content warnings, etc.
Once again, the question of lines drawn and actions taken arises.
So what is the labour involved? The obvious one is what people on your instance are posting. It's friends and family so you may think it's okay, but this is the happy case. You know you have to plan for the worst case, which is people have different kinds of ideas and ways of expressing them, and you need to form an escalation matrix of where the lines are for DMs, warnings, temp bans and perrmabans.
I've been thinking about mastodon hosting and whether the labour of running an instance for friends and family makes sense.
@abnv and I have been talking about it on and off, and he's way more bullish on the idea than I am. Looking at the journa.host blow up, I'm starting to realise how much work an instance is, and how much we take for granted on Twitter and co.
Sumana Harihareswaraevery once in a while I go to the #'introductions hashtag or the local timeline and say hello to someone who's just joined and is posting for the first time. I figure new neighbors may feel more welcome if someone says hi back the first time they say hi.
I'm not trying to greet EVERYONE - I figure probably some other folks are also doing this organically. Likely no need for a formal welcoming committee if enough people take it on as an occasional thing