Your resident Admin for Universeodon.com and Readit.buzz fediverse systems.

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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • It’s unfortunate that Beehaw started so many communities with such generic names with so few admins. The “beauty” of federation/lemmey/kbin aka “Reddit style” is that communities are supposed to be self-organizing and have their own representation/moderation.

    I think the bigger problem is Beehaw decided to launch so many generic names copying Reddit’s busiest and most generic reddits without thinking through the moderationand traffic overhead.

    it should be instances have their champion topics and they’re federated or if they have the manpower/technology and funding they can go for the big generic names.

    I get why things were defederated - but blaming open registrations is a cop-out (a big lie… you can’t know people by their registration info). It was bad "systems thinking’ that led to an overwhelmed system that will continue to be overwhelmed.











  • Users should absolutely have mute/block/privacy controls. These should be used to build the community they want and see what they want to see.

    Users should not be left to “fend for themselves” against abuse/hate/racism having a platform.

    A person of color should feel safe.
    Women should feel safe.
    LGBTQIA+ should feel safe.
    BIPOC should feel safe.

    They should be able to login, find their community and participate without needing to deal with DM’s of lynchings, being publichly shamed with racial slurs. Power belongs to real community and real engagement, not abusers.