As part of the work on Fediverse sustainability announced earlier this year, the Social Web Foundation is running our first Fediverse Sustainability Survey . We’re seeking operators, moderators and administrators of Fediverse sites, from the smallest to the largest, to fill out the anonymous survey and share information about how their instances work. If you help run an instance, please take the 10-15 minutes needed to fill out the survey. We need a lot of responses (hundreds!) to get statistically relevant data, so please feel free to share the link. We’re also on the lookout for operators of instances that are no longer running; there is a lot to learn about sustainability from servers that closed down, for whatever reason. We’ll publish findings here as part of our sustainability report, supplemented by interviews with selected respondents. Thanks!
I always enjoy seeing these public discussions about what the fediverse can and should be.
Sure there’s a lot to improve, but the social problem of “how should humans behave in a group” is a permanent one.
Voice is a sign of a healthy community and loyalty. I’ll be worried when i stop reading people argue passionately for what the fediverse should be, because it’s a sign that its members have lost faith in it and would rather exit.
We’re here voluntarily, with different goals, needs, and expectations. There’s going to be wildly different ideas about what this should look like, and it’ll continue to churn at its edges as long as it exists.
Defederation is such a powerful tool: we are free to choose who we don’t want to interact with. Us. Not a for profit, not a government, us the members of each server or league of servers. That’s the shape of community.
The ban, filter and mute are important but individual. Defederation is collective, and I find that much more interesting.
#fediverse
Sure there’s a lot to improve, but the social problem of “how should humans behave in a group” is a permanent one.
Voice is a sign of a healthy community and loyalty. I’ll be worried when i stop reading people argue passionately for what the fediverse should be, because it’s a sign that its members have lost faith in it and would rather exit.
We’re here voluntarily, with different goals, needs, and expectations. There’s going to be wildly different ideas about what this should look like, and it’ll continue to churn at its edges as long as it exists.
Defederation is such a powerful tool: we are free to choose who we don’t want to interact with. Us. Not a for profit, not a government, us the members of each server or league of servers. That’s the shape of community.
The ban, filter and mute are important but individual. Defederation is collective, and I find that much more interesting.
#fediverse
