fediverse growing pains
overly optimistic i think but, i'm hoping that the more direct relationship between users and admins on the fediverse is going to make a lot of people take account of what they actually want out of a social media, and a relationship with a website owner.
fingers crossed it encourages people towards more conscious self-hosting for the real relationships you want to have online. but like i said, i'm probably being overly optimistic
fediverse growing pains
the silly instance drama between admins is one of the biggest ones that would almost completely be avoided if more people started instances for themselves and people they knew personally already.
i know this isn't possible for everyone, and i totally think there should be places that have good practices for new users, but still.
fediverse growing pains
@exiliaex I think the "unabstracted" administration/moderation is going to be a big thing, maybe not in a good way. Now when someone's post gets taken down, it isn't going to be done by "Mastodon", it's going to be all the more obvious that it's "Bob from Idaho".
But if servers stay small and individually nonimpactful, this might not be too much of a problem even if Mastodon becomes the main form of social media. No individual may be large enough to be that lightning rod.
fediverse growing pains
@OpaqueLightbulb yeah the fact that its obvious that its "Bob from idaho" i think will cause a lot of friction and pain at first, it'll cause some people to distrust the fediverse forever, it'll cause some people to prefer the abstracted administration, but will eventually, for most people, cause a tendency towards small semi-"self-hosted" islands of friends
fediverse growing pains
@exiliaex Yeah that'd be a neat result tbh
fediverse growing pains
a lot of the frustrations new users have with somewhere like mastodon is the expected UX, having just come from centralized networks, and abstracted administration powers. but (in most cases, imo) it quickly becomes a learning experience for what the rest of the sites on the internet are constantly doing and constantly trying to hide that they're doing from users.