[Adminsysters] Mastodon - what do we want and how do we want it

[mara]

Hi,

Here the pad we worked for our systerserver.town instance during a 
workshop with Lurk last spring.
https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/systerserver.town-fhm

The questions in the pad help formulating what, for whom and by whom the 
instance is running.

I don't quite follow all thread here, due to many deadlines I have till 
mid Nov and some family issues.

Nonetheless wrt:
 > And while we're editing our about page I think we should maybe share
 > what we would like to see happening on systerserver.town.
I wouldn't go into this direction, feels too restrictive and not really 
manageable from a modetator's perspective. In general guidelines 
articulate what a community doesn't tolerate in this instance, e.x 
sexist, nazis, trolling etc..

ciao, M

On 11/10/22 12:22, Anne Roth wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> apart from the pad I feel it might be helpful to have a discussion about 
> the character of the Mastodon instance.
> 
> Not sure this is something everyone wants to discuss - let me know 
> whether that should be moved elsewhere.
> 
> 
> Right now it feels like half of Twitter is moving over to Mastodon / the 
> Fediverse and that results in a trillion of debates about what is 
> different, what's similar, what is wanted and what isn't.
> 
> There were so many debates about Content Warnings that people start to 
> demand CW for those debates.
> 
> (I'm currently entangled in a debate whether there should be such 
> warnings, or notices, for all political content, or else for 'negative 
> politics' and that entails it's own debate: What is negative political 
> content?)
> 
> I admit that I hadn't realized how different the concept of the local 
> timeline is, and just came across this text whic I found helpful 
> https://www.hughrundle.net/home-invasion/
> 
> I don't share all of the views but it's definitely a good introduction 
> to the current dynamics, I find.
> 
> And while we're editing our about page I think we should maybe share 
> what we would like to see happening on systerserver.town.
> 
> More something of a safe space with a local timeline that resembles a 
> community space with some reservation about the rest of the world out 
> there, or rather like a place for our activism, ok to have controversial 
> debates, mobilising and informing about what we fight against?
> 
> Can we have both and how? I tend to lean towards the latter, I don't 
> believe in defining politics apart from something else, everything is 
> politics to me and I like controversies and discussion. I also have the 
> need for safe spaces some times and room to withdraw from the world - 
> it's not easy to draw the line but I'm thinking it's a good conversation 
> to have before we open up the instance a little bit. I haven't moved my 
> 'big account' to systerserver.town (yet) because it'll bring a lot of 
> people debating stuff and my feeling is I'd like to understand better 
> what type of atmosphere we'd like to see there.
> 
> Thoughts? Or should we actually try and find the time for a call about 
> this?
> 
> Cheers,
> Anne
> 
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