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   Shoq (shoq@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Sep-2024 05:18:55 JST Shoq

   • Jessamyn

   It wasn’t until I saw that Metafilter owner, @jessamyn, was here on Mastodon, that I fully realized that in the back of my mind, MetaFilter was always the closest analogy to what I thought typical and lasting Fediverse “communities” should feel like. A place where freedom of expression was carefully balanced with common sense moderation and a certain intolerance for random fuckery. I personally feel the entire fediverse has become way too preoccupied with whether and how it can …

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     Shoq (shoq@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Sep-2024 05:18:52 JST Shoq

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     • Jessamyn

     @jessamyn Indeed. Which is one reason I am working with @newmast and @tchambers on first getting activityPub group actors working well, and then building on that. Integrating and cross-connecting groups should be easier than entire instances. May I add you to our “interested parties” list? I’m organizing a chat about it.

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     Shoq (shoq@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Sep-2024 05:18:54 JST Shoq

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     compete with Big Social, and not focused enough on what it does well, which is facilitate smaller and ultimately more impactful and necessary creative, professional, civic, and educational communities. And for all of them to much better served, we need far more than these extremely simple, brute-force communicators like microblogging. We need things like textcasting standards, personal and group repositories, clearinghouses, verifiers, metadata, more robust full-text search indexes, and …

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     Shoq (shoq@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Sep-2024 05:18:54 JST Shoq

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     lots of other tools so far beyond what big social would ever be capable of providing. That is crazy-exciting to me. The potential is enormous. But we’re still talking about not having quoted posts, and whether we’re appealing enough to sign-up Brazilian refugees who just lost their Twitter.

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     Jessamyn (jessamyn@glammr.us)'s status on Monday, 02-Sep-2024 05:18:54 JST Jessamyn

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     @shoq Honestly I wish there were a bunch of MetaFilters which could all cross-post to each other so that it was easier for people to find their communities within the larger one. Like... I am on a GLAM instance on Mastodon and it's a good starting place. MeFi gets a lot more people who have come from Big Social and so have slightly off-kilter expectations of community norms and how moderation works, or should work.

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     Shoq (shoq@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 09:29:09 JST Shoq

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     • Steve Dinn
     • Jessamyn

     @steve @jessamyn @tchambers that was my first thought which is why I'm asking for clarification. There are other possibilities.

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     Steve Dinn (steve@social.dinn.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 09:29:10 JST Steve Dinn

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     • Tim Chambers
     • Jessamyn

     @jessamyn @shoq @tchambers Sounds like metafilter needs a Lemmy (or similar) instance. That sounds like what you're describing to me.