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

[Helen Varley Jamieson]

i think anna meant to share / discuss between ourselves what we want to 
see happening with systerserver.town, rather than to put that into the 
general guidelines. is that right, anne?

the article anne sent is worth reading (reminds me also of my own 
experience during 2020 when suddenly thousands of other people became 
overnight experts in online performance 😂) & i think it is good to go 
with caution, be realistic about what we can do with the resources we 
have, & who we are doing it for (ourselves, first!).

we could get mired down in endless conversations, for example what is 
"negative political content" indeed!!! the mmore concise our guidelines 
are, the better. and keeping the instance invitation only is good.

h : )

On 10.11.22 23:42, mara wrote:
> 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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