Comment by 👻 darkghost
Re: "hush on inter-community protocols"
I've been saying this for a long time. The smaller communities tend to be better behaved online. Outsiders are welcome to join if they behave in a respectful manner and the moderation can be a volunteer effort by the community. Intercommunity mingling is a more challenging problem and this is true universally. In real life, human communities don't scale past a certain point, namely about a borough. Decisions are performed less directly (eg elections) or by a central authority figure (eg monarch) once you scale to this size. They're clunkier and less direct. Nevermind that people don't like being told what to do by someone disconnected from their community's problems (Reddit mod war.)
2025-04-09 · 1 year ago
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— hush muses on problems with our current social networks
hush on inter-community protocols — Interesting thoughts about an inter-community protocol. Coming from fediverse admin and moderation, I she's on the spot regarding the curating vs. automation. but it's either this or that, isn't it? The curating takes volunteer effort which is...not really paid for. And there's not much control on it by the average user except for opting to leave the...