Notices by Jonathan T (jonnyt@mastodon.me.uk), page 3

@thomasfuchs @RetroWizzard But it doesn't though. They'll go back to where they were before and tell everyone that this place is terrible - and they'd be justified in doing so - and you'd get more people not even bothering to try joining.

I don't think the instance problem is one that is trivial to solve.

@thomasfuchs @RetroWizzard I don't disagree with you but how would that work in practice? A 'generic' instance in this case would get very large, very quickly. And that would mean that people's experience of Mastodon would also have the potential to get very shitty, very quickly due to the prospect of a lack of or poor moderation. Thus the experience could be worse than they would have had from randomly being assigned an instance or choosing their own.

@technomancy @cwebber The article was good but, ironically for me, it was the bits about the ‘old ways of doing things’ that I thought were the worst about it (e.g. the bit about moderation was laughable, given how crap all the major social media platforms have always been and continue to be at that).

Unaware of the Denny’s incident but I’m a relative newbie here (joined last November). Also, HTHR?

@technomancy @cwebber It shouldn’t be. They will get accommodated here in the exact same way Gab was. That is, they’ll exist but most people will never see anything from them (unless what they do here is, slightly improbably, actually useful or interesting).

@thomasfuchs Are there any mechanisms in place to stop that from being misused for abusive messaging? Because it seems ripe to be exploited that way, if it's trivial to set up.

@thomasfuchs @wim_v12e @mudasobwa @mac It's mostly that many businesses are paying large sums of money for office space that isn't being used and many landlords (aka obscenely wealthy people who own the politicians) are shitting themselves at their entire industry collapsing when those same businesses near the ends of their leases and decide to go somewhere smaller and less central.

@wim_v12e @mudasobwa @mac @thomasfuchs (Sorry, my comment wasn't aimed at anyone in particular other than clueless CEOs and politicians who keep pushing for a 'return to the office' for no good reason and plenty of stupidly bad ones).

@mac @thomasfuchs And also, the 'I'm significantly more productive now and therefore better for the organisation I work for than I ever was before' people like me.

If you want to see me being a worse worker, just bloody observe how much less I get done on the days you make me go into the office versus the days I don't.