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@benny @moxfulder

Admins have conversations about big picture things. It's ok to discuss big "fediverse" things beyond the context of our local instances - see a problem, fix it kind of thing.

There is a big picture problem of the HOA vibe on mastodon and a lack of user agency when their default post goes to local.

I don't have a problem with local chat. I want it to survive in some fashion - maybe as "local only" or better yet as some kind of group. A group that can be moderated independent of a user's agency to their own timeline.

This HOA vibe is cited as a reason why people are leaving the fediverse in general. It's not a problem i face on my local instance per se because i don't moderate the local chat to a specific vibe.

But i still don't want people to leave the fediverse because other admins essentially wield power over people's agency.

Being open source doesn't fix our HOA vibe. Changing inherent designs in the platform that powers a chunk of fedi could