Mastodon is at 2000s levels when it comes to abuse mitigation and, for more than one instance, SRE practices. Watching this is like watching evolution in real time of stuff I and others have seen and evolved over two decades or more.
--srs ________________________________ From: Silklist <[email protected]> on behalf of José María Mateos via Silklist <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 9, 2023 4:12:18 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Cc: José María Mateos <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Silk] Back to actual *social* media On Sun, Jan 08, 2023 at 04:21:11PM +0000, Suresh Ramasubramanian via Silklist wrote: >I’m getting déjà vu to several such discussions from the 2000s. And >mastodon as well is one of those things that takes me way back to when >we were all young and naive I left Twitter in 2016 after having been thinking about it for a couple of years (the time I needed to invest in that cesspool to obtain a meaningful return had increased beyond what I considered reasonable) and I joined Mastodon mid-November after I saw some movement there from people in my close circles. I must say it has very "2008 Twitter" vibes: it's fun, it's interesting, there are mainly meaningful discussions and there are few trolls (yet.) It's a matter of time they'll eventually arrive, but I want the optimist in me wants to think we've learned a bit about blocking and silencing. I know we haven't. I specially like that I support my instance financially via a monthly contribution. I know the admin personally. It helps making me feel I'm at home; everything has a human scale. Cheers! P.S.: about mailing lists. I'm starting a small project (pushing for law reform --ID theft protections are horrible-- here in Canada) that will eventually ask for volunteers when it's open to the public and I plan to have a mailing list as the main communication tool + a small wiki installed on a shared host as the main documentation repository. No big tech anywhere to be seen, and I'll push hard to keep it that way; let's see how that goes. P. P. S.: I don't write much, but thanks a lot to Udhay for finding a new home for the list. -- José María (Chema) Mateos || https://rinzewind.org -- Silklist mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist
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