I am not at all talking about the cases of someone who is passionate about some topic and then goes on to cultivate a community around it, and I am not saying "every moderator is doing it for some ulterior motive".
I am talking specifically about the types that put on themselves to become mods of dozens of subreddits. Or instance admins that go months in a row begging for money to be able to pay their own bills, instead of shutting down the instance or make it only for those that contribute back.
IOW, I am talking about the cases where people act beyond what anyone would consider "healthy".
But if you were to find yourself with a community with hundreds of thousands of people, and let's say that 0.01% percent of any group is made of people who seem like they are out to just make everyone's life miserable, so every week we will have to deal with a couple of dozen cases of obnoxnious behavior, petty disputes, etc... how long do you think you'd be able to endure it?
Speaking for myself: I was remembering the time when I found myself as the owner and main mod of the University's group on Orkut. When it was mostly discussions among actual students and faculty, it was all nice. Even when discussions were heated, they were not out of control. But when Orkut exploded in Brazil and it became a place for soapbox politics, spam, shouting matches between the student factions, people wanting to share articles about city events, etc, etc... it became too much for me and the handful of co-owners that joined me in the period.
Some people chose to do the right things because they are right
This is just another way of saying that people do things for moral validation - a.k.a, self-righteouness - and is no at all different from "power tripping".
Overall I'm satisfied with the moderation process and neutrality on Fosstodon.
What to do? As a Fosstodon user, it's hard to see any future path with the instance that works in my favor. (...) Most will never know anything about the name other than "the instance which allowed a nazi mod". While I believe the characterization is 100% untrue and unfair, the die is cast for lots of people.
If I stay, the likely outcomes are:
Limited communication with some other people, because some other instance mods will choose to block Fosstodon
Will have to explain my choices and the highlights of this post any time someone says "eeeww, Fosstodon", occasionally and probably forever
Some people will incorrectly assume I hold certain views based on my association with fosstodon
So, yes, at least one person is moving to another instance not because they are particularly against the admins, but for fear of being judged by association.
Interesting! I hope to see posts from your business soon, and it would be great to have more people like you contributing to the communities on https://indiehackers.space/
Ah, I thought you were talking about something here on the Fediverse.
In any case, I wish people didn't feel afraid to talk about business here. Maybe more people would realize that behind the majority of "business" there are genuine people and not just the cartoon capitalist pigs.
I have to ask, then: what motivates people to do it?
If mods are not financially compensated for it, the only rational explanation is that they are either getting some form of benefit (soft power, access to privileged information) or they are getting some pleasure out of it, i.e, power tripping.
One moderator from fosstodon is not 100% aligned to the prevailing ideology on Fedi.
Someone on Mastodon found "bad" posts from said moderator.
The mob went on to presume that someone that is not 100% aligned to their prevailing ideology is unfit to be considered human - let alone a moderator - so they went after the admins.
The admins claimed to have reviewed said mod actions, didn't find anything out of the ordinary, but still got rid of them.
Regardless of actions and reactions, the mob now successfully tainted the name and reputation of the instance.
Less-principled users of fosstodon are now just leaving the instance, for fear of being associated with them.
One of fosstodon's admins (the author of the blog post) is now saying "Screw you guys, I'm going home to Bluesky"
Language changes. "porn" has been used to express "visually stimulating imagery" and "simulacra of the real activity" for quite some time. There is nothing dumb about appending porn to the SFW subreddits, because there is no better expression (*) to succintly express that those subs are not made for deep/meaningful discussion.
(*) Maybe it could work with "obsession" or "fetish", but the pearl-clutching crowd would also criticize the sexual connotation.
No real benefit in promoting this over !unixporn@lemmy.world. If you were at least creating the community in a different instance, I'd be happy to help.
If you'd like to reconsider and help reduce the reliance on LW, I can create a community for you on https://poweruser.forum/.
C2S has a very specific usage, and if you meant "regular clients", you'd do better by qualifying the API you were talking about by specifying the application - i.e, Mastodon, Lemmy - than by throwing a meaningless term.
Maybe you mean "bots using the ad-hoc APIs from the servers"? AFAIK, there is no server implementing C2S ActivityPub, so it would be hard to have bots making use of them?
The community should be associated with a subreddit. If it's not, you can make a suggestion for the change.
Apply to become a Community Ambassador. I'll approve it. Once you are approved, you will be able to do the following:
See the posts from the subreddit that is associated to the community.
Send DMs to people on Reddit, inviting them to join Lemmy and your community
Add other sources of contents (RSS feeds)
There were more things that I had planned, such as the ability to do one-click repost of interesting links, but I didn't get to it because that would mean effectively that I would have to turn the fediverser site into a an alternative Lemmy frontend.
I really wish more people had taken on the "Community Ambassador" work that I've done for https://fediverser.network/. It could be really helpful in creating a focal point for everyone that wanted to help the migration of people interested in a specific niche.
She touches on the aspect of monetization and claims that "you could save money by being on the Fediverse".
Yes, in theory it is possible. In practice this is something that only is available for the already-famous journalists who have enough pull to move their audience from Substack to their own property.
For everyone else, the Fediverse is (a) too small and (b) too "anti-money" to encourage professionals to even try making a living here. They stay on Substack for the same reason that video creators stay on YouTube: it's a horrible master, but at least it lets them pay their bills.
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I am not at all talking about the cases of someone who is passionate about some topic and then goes on to cultivate a community around it, and I am not saying "every moderator is doing it for some ulterior motive".
I am talking specifically about the types that put on themselves to become mods of dozens of subreddits. Or instance admins that go months in a row begging for money to be able to pay their own bills, instead of shutting down the instance or make it only for those that contribute back.
IOW, I am talking about the cases where people act beyond what anyone would consider "healthy".