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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 11:14:33 JST Evan Prodromou

   Interesting results. I had a hard time with this question, so I wrote a blog post about it. https://evanp.me/2023/12/26/big-fedi-small-fedi/

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 12:06:39 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Luke T. Shumaker

     @lukeshu you're not! I didn't define the terms before hand.

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     Luke T. Shumaker (lukeshu@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 12:06:40 JST Luke T. Shumaker

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     @evan I voted "More Small than Big", but based on the definitions in your blog post, I'd have voted "More Big than Small".

     Specifically:
     Of your 24 "Big Fedi" ideas:
     - strongly agree: 19
     - strongly disagree: 1
     - somewhere in the middle: 4
     Of your 22 "Small Fedi" ideas:
     - strongly agree: 2
     - strongly disagree: 17
     - somewhere in the middle: 3

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     Luke T. Shumaker (lukeshu@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 12:06:40 JST Luke T. Shumaker

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     @evan Because my definitions are apparently almost the opposite of your definitions, I want to defend myself as "not a dumbass":

     Toot-sized versions of what they mean to me:

     - Small Fedi means lots of small account servers.
     - Big Fedi means a few big account servers.

     Most of my agreement or disagreement follows from those meanings.

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     Brendan Jones (brendanjones@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 21:20:59 JST Brendan Jones

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     @evan Going by the comments, a bunch of people misunderstood the poll like I did: I thought this was a question about server size. Don’t I feel the fool now!

     After reading your blog post, you can definitely switch my vote from ‘more small Fedi’ to ‘more big Fedi’.

     Very thought provoking reading through each of the positions and examining my own reasoning, so thanks for making me think.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 12:31:25 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • maya ❅

     @maya I'm not sure what you mean. I've got about as much explanation of points in the Small Fedi side as the Big Fedi side. And one of the important aspects of Small Fedi is that if you don't share our principles, you probably shouldn't be on the fediverse.

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     maya ❅ (maya@occult.institute)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 12:31:26 JST maya ❅

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     @evan What you present as one side gets its opinions fleshed out in little statements, and what you present as the other side gets its opinions followed by "[People who disagree] just don't get it", more than once. Do you think that's even-handed?

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 12:32:15 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • maya ❅

     @maya you might agree with other parts of the Small Fedi cluster, and not that one. That's OK. Not everyone is going to believe everything on that list.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 14:51:39 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • maya ❅

     @maya thanks for the feedback!

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     maya ❅ (maya@occult.institute)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 14:51:40 JST maya ❅

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     @evan This constitutes feedback, then, that what you have written is not coming off as presenting varied viewpoints in the way that those who believe in them might. That seems like a shame, because there's definitely a lot worth chewing over on these topics.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 20:51:53 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Raphael Lullis

     @raphael I think that's a really good principle.

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     Raphael Lullis (raphael@mastodon.communick.com)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 20:51:54 JST Raphael Lullis

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     @evan i skipped your poll because I wasn't sure of what you meant, but after reading your blog post I am "Big Fedi" all the way, with the exception that I don't want to see any single entity controlling the majority of accounts.