Notices by Aurynn Shaw (aurynn@cloudisland.nz)

people who are opining that Facebook joining the fedi is okay didn't live through Google killing XMPP. Or anything Microsoft ever did.

If you're attending NDA'd meetings with a malevolent advertising company, maybe consider that you are not on the side of the users.

and if you're writing this, fuck you

"but I need ads to fund my fedi instance"

then you can't afford to run an instance, don't.

@Setok fuck off

@Setok what part of “fuck off” was unclear?

@Setok oh no, internet man who thinks that defederation is “extreme” is disappointed in me for being told to fuck off

Yet still he does not fuck off

hearing that someone's writing an ads plugin for Mastodon

and I gotta say

any instance that runs that, I will defederate immediately.

@PetraOleum which things?

@swansinflight you do know that Suspend severed all follow[er|ing] relationships right?

@alix @swansinflight So what happens on a technical level is that a background job gets kicked off that goes through and suspends every user on the instance being suspended. This can take a while to run.

It's the suspending an account that severs all the connections.

@swansinflight @alix as with all decisions on Mastodon, Eugen decided and the rest of us get to Just Fucking Deal

Do you like getting likes on your posts?

Then why are you telling people likes don't matter?

Stop this.

@aredridel This is what you pay your admin to do.

@aredridel to me, admins are responsible to their users and to other admins. There's a burden of responsibility to comport yourself well to other admins to not get yourself defederated. That is the emergent consensus system at play.

@aredridel Federation is a privilege, not a right, and any instance has can defed for any reason they see fit, including reasons you disagree with.

"Oh no it's bad that people defederate servers"

No it's bad that people who don't understand running communities keep trying to run communities and need to be defederated

This post brought to you by me rolling my eyes super hard at the "oh no defederation is bad for the fediverse" bad takes showing up again

All of these “defederation is bad” takes are, in essence, saying that instance administrators exist to be vanity domain names and that a single contiguous fediverse is both possible and desired.

I reject both of these premises. Defederate early, defederate often, build the anarchic consensus you want to see.

“How will fedi survive now that whatever new techbro bullshit has come out”

It survives because of a bunch of admins want it to survive and will keep on wanting it to survive.

Hope that helps. 🙂