OK, so I have seen a few warnings now that my server might not be the best to be on, as the de facto standard that lots of folks flock to as ... :waves hands:
So --- where do I find the scuttlebutt (or, heaven forfend, ACTUAL DATA) about which servers have good moderation and good fediverse connectivity?
I'm happy to move. Once.
@jasonp AFAICS, the "fediverse connectivity" is the same on every instance (well, unless there unilateral blocking going on). If you depend on a large local or federated timeline on your instance (server), lookout for large(er) instances — but beware, depending on their funding and backing, they might run into similar issues as your current instance.
As for moderation, an instance in the EU should give you much free speech unless it's hate speech …
@wusel Hm, I'm not sure that's the case if what I am reading --- that my instance is being silenced or blocked by others in the federation --- is accurate.
I have no problem with that per se but as the fairly popular post I'm cribbing from here predicts, I thought I was doing pretty well in seeing a decent slice of what's on Mastodon as a whole. If that's not true, I'd like to find a decent vantage point from which to take a look and make a comparison.
@jasonp @wusel I don't think mastodon.social is going to be a pariah (well, don't hold me to it if I'm wrong). Eugen is more libertarian than I like, and I DO want a more outspoken anti-racist, queer, justice-forward instance (one that "gets it"), and I also think the ideal size of a big instance is in the 5 figures of users. But I'm in no big hurry.
@jasonp @wusel Wellll ... I may actually be wrong about that. I saw that weider.earth seems to be currently set to actually defederate from the two big instances in a week, and I follow people there. I do know that ours upgraded their mod teams very recently, so who knows if the conversations between the teams may prevent that. We'll see which level of cutting of ties will happen. In any event, I can reconnect when I found a better home. This is a busy and unstable time for the Mastodon.
Well, stating that server's rules ...
"Cultivate the Weird
Harassment will not be tolerated, oppressive behavior will not be tolerated, […]."
..., defederation a much larger, well know and AFAICS "sanely run" instance, even a pair of them, to me is a rather oppressive behavior. By their rules, they'd have to defederate themselves completely.
@wusel I absolutely don't agree that your conclusion follows from that premise, or that defederating from maston.social and mastodon.online constitutes oppression of any kind.
@jasonp It oppresses the content created by 240k users on maston.social and 87k users on mastodon.online to be seen by the 1k users on weirder.earth. If that's understood and known at all times by all those 1k users, than it might be ok by procedure, but it's still oppressing communication — for IMO questionable reasons I might add.
IMO you have to abide to your own rules; to blemish "oppressive behavior" but execute exactly that against another instances is not authentic.
