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 …