Daniel Supernault
While the corporate silos remove safeguards, I think the fediverse should accelerate privacy and safety initiatives.
It starts with the leadership.
Developers like me.
Who start initiatives and divert funding to those in our community who are making progress in these regards.
mrkreuzer
@dansup please don’t get this the wrong way i love what you are doing. How are you ensuring that pixelfed’s fate does not rely on you being a bro but actually is a structure and organization that steers towards good even if you (hypothetically) had a meltdown, inflating ego or became greedy?
Again, love your work - just seeing more and more posts of yours that seem to put more the spotlight on you than the platform (which is legit, nothing wrong with that).
Daniel Supernault
@mrkreuzer I'm establishing a team and foundation to take the burden of managing everything so i can focus on what I do best, coding.
I'm not perfect, but I'm not evil either. I've built a number of projects and need to distance myself from mastodon at times because the criticism can be hard to take and can lead to me embarrassing myself by letting my stress out on whoever is there.
I know I can do better, and I'm working on that.
A good leader knows when to acknowledge this.
The Nexus of Privacy
@dansup I certainly agree that developers like you have a big role to play in helping the fediverse accelerate privacy and safety features.
With Pixelfed's momentum you have some great opportunities to show leadership here by prioritizing safety.
as a coder, lead by example. Implemement moderation roles and a dashboard. Prioritize fixing open safety- and moderation-related bugs.
as somebody who's started an initiative that's getting funding, you can be a role model by diverting a lot of it to moderators on pixelfed.social and other instances you run, moderators in the community, and safety-focused developers in the Pixelfed and the broader fediverse communities.
Those are only a couple of ideas, there are other ways as well.
Daniel Supernault
@thenexusofprivacy I appreciate the feedback, and wonder if we can schedule a voice or text chat to discuss this further.
I'm great at building, but I admit that I'm starting to get in over my head managing everything, so I welcome your advice and the opportunity for you to advise us in getting this right!
Let me know!
jandi
@dansup @thenexusofprivacy Yes! Dan, you're doing an amazing job, foster your community, we're stronger together.
I was hoping for this exact response, and so I'm doing a little silly dance in your honor, godspeed!
The Nexus of Privacy
@dansup It's the classic "good problem to have but still a problem." With the growth rates of pixelfed.social and Pixelfed in general -- as well as Loops -- I can certainly see why you're feeling like you're in over your head.
So my advice in general is to prioritize safety and moderation even if it means doing less. Defer UX improvements and maybe even onboarding until you've made progress on safety. Close registration on pixelfed.social until you have a mod team in place and a path to paying them that makes it sustainable. Like I said in another thread, the opportunity won't go away.
Daniel Supernault
@thenexusofprivacy I agree with most of what you said, but closing pixelfed.social registration would be detrimental to the success of our project.
People are not looking for a decentralized Instagram alternative, they are looking for a Instagram alternative.
If we don't capture the hype, and prepare them for other servers, they will most likely join some VC funded app.
The bigger picture view is important here, and one I think you'd understand.
BlueSky Flashes are no better, in fact worse.
GNU social JP is a social network, courtesy of GNU social JP管理人. It runs on GNU social, version 2.0.2-dev, available under the GNU Affero General Public License.
All GNU social JP content and data are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.