Notices by supernovae (supernovae@universeodon.com)

I just wanted to give a warm welcome to @wild1145 as he takes over the helm here at Universeodon.com - Y'all are in great hands. ❤️

The current team is working behind the scenes to make sure Ryan has everything needed for a smooth transition.

:mastodondance:

I just want to say that the outpour of support means a lot to me, and I appreciate it.

I was the one that was recently quoted on a blog going around about burnout and stress saying it can feel lonely and isolated.

It means a lot to know that I'm not entirely lonely out here even if it felt that way with the stresses of it all.

again,
Thank you.

❤️

I am in touch with admins who will be able to take over as I step away.

I'll miss our little community :hearthands:

I will be removing myself from mastodon and seeking next steps as to what to do with universeodon.com

My health and wellbeing has been adversely impacted by the events of the past 5 weeks so much so it is impacting my ability to function as a human being.

I've reach out to our coadmins and other admins to work on next steps. I will keep everyone posted.

Thank you.

#universeodon - We've started migrating more of our services to ARM64. We're excited to lower our energy consumption footprint and take advantage of modernizing our infrastructure at the same time.

We've set up a logical replication of our database to start populating a new remote cluster and we'll hopefully be able to use this to do a final cutover with just an announced restart at some future date.

Either way, we'll keep you posted if we expect any outages or need any downtime through these updates and migrations.

Thank you! :hearthands: :mastodondance:

@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

The hardest thing about being a mastodon admin isn't the moderation, running servers, paying bills, dealing with users or anything like that.

It's dealing with other admins.

There is a very thin camaraderie that is easily pierced not because of people being bad, but because of differences of opinions.

Those opinions don't get talked about - they create tribes of people who champion them without rational discourse. Say something they don't want to hear and *boom* the tribe attacks and those who may have other perspectives let it happen without saying anything because who wants to face ridicule?

This lack of rationality is systemic and problematic - so much so that talking about things in safe spaces is no longer safe.

There are no safe spaces.

I'm sorry, we need to do better. We need to realize we have differing perspectives but common goals and that doesn't make each other bad or enemies.

Advocating for user agency is not a crime.

@Bahadir @binarytango

And nothing wrong with that if that's how they want to spend their money ;)

@fediversereport

This was shared with the admin discussion as well.

In fact, they asked if we could join some initiative that is focused on account portability for data migrations.

@gubi @oliphant @mastodonmigration @jerry @jarm @kainoa @feditips @atomicpoet @stux @dansup @jessel

no, i don't bet anything on meta - but while the opportunity is here, i plan to take advantage of it.

@gubi @mastodonmigration @jerry @jarm @kainoa @feditips @atomicpoet @stux @dansup @jessel @oliphant

not if they join the fediverse.

User on universodon follows user on threads. User on universeodon has fediverse experience but has friends on threads.

User on threads sees they can be elsewhere and migrates to universeodon - and can make new friends and follow old friends.

account migrations are much easier when you can keep the networks you already have.

meta has no bearing on what the fediverse does since the systems are loosely coupled

@ohiorob @sammydee @feditips @mastodonmigration @_dmh

I never claimed segregation was the right word. (isolationism?)

But, I prefer my choice of being here and using activitypub to talk to them there.

That too is choice.

Why should others take that away?

@feditips @ohiorob @mastodonmigration @_dmh

Well, you're essentially saying my daughter is a murderer by association - so everyone loses.

Sorry you can't separate Meta the company from People looking for social media.

Why would anyone want to join here if they would just be accused of genocide, hate or abused because of association?

why?

@feditips @mastodonmigration @_dmh

Loaded questions aren't the flex you think they are.

@ohiorob @feditips @mastodonmigration @_dmh My 14 year old started a pet sitting business on meta and bought her first car on meta using money from her pet sitting business and then bought a bounch of classic video game consoles from people meta since her hobby is old video games.

with a billion+ people over there - there are probably a lot more people like my kids doing cool shit on meta.

@feditips @mastodonmigration @_dmh

For the people in the back.

It's not about Meta.

It's about the people.

📣

@_dmh @feditips @mastodonmigration

I've only been talking about the humans.

Building a wall to deny a billion people access to talk to us is self isolationist/segregationist.

If another word fits better, that's fine. :) sure. it may not be on racial boundaries in the purest sense, but it feels like it's based on the same fears and hate.

@feditips @mastodonmigration @jerry @jarm @kainoa @atomicpoet @stux @dansup @jessel @oliphant

I don't think you stop people from being hurt by harming them through segregation.

You stop people from being hurt by showing a little compassion and empathy.

Something that is severely lacking in all of these discussions.

Federation does *not* mean we're not upholding our rules and the mastodon covenant.

@mastodonmigration @jerry @jarm @kainoa @feditips @atomicpoet @stux @dansup @jessel @oliphant I like the thought of blocking IPs with shared lists like crowdsec because those rules can be expanded to support Fastly/firewalls/cloudflare or whatever edge you wish to use and alleviate pressure on systems when abuse strikes - while also preserving the ability for 3rd party UIs to work and exploration of public timelines without auth (so they can be shared/linked/published as people do so naturally)

@mastodonmigration @jerry @jarm @kainoa @feditips @atomicpoet @stux @dansup @jessel @oliphant I'm going to champion the opposite too.

I'd like to see what we can do to champion connecting to the world and doing so safely - not out of hate for the company but love for fellow human beings.

I think we're missing the point when the feature of the fediverse is "use it because you hate something else"

When i'd rather it be "use it because you love it".

I'm not a pitchfork kind of guy. :)

One more important thing I think we need is a community or admins so we can collaborate/discuss and engage as peers not as enemies - and do so with user advocacy in mind.

Our users are suffering at the mercy of administrator views when the platform could support agency for both.