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

[Gaba]

On 11/11/22 12:20, Helen Varley Jamieson wrote:
> 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?


I understood this too and I think it is important for us to discuss what 
we want from that space. I like the approach that Darius Kazemi have on 
running their instance [1]. He runs a fork of mastodon called hometown 
[2] that we could look into as it is for smaller instances . In hometown 
there is the option of local only posting, meaning only the people in 
your instance can discuss on those.

Looking at the pad [3] that Mara shared I like many of the notes there. 
I would like this instance to be a safe space for Queer, feminists, 
feminist collectives and activists. I would like for us to have a 
feminist approach on how we build the space and build it from our 
trusted networks.

0. https://tinysubversions.com/

1. https://friend.camp/about/more

2. https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/wiki

3. https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/systerserver.town-fhm

>
> 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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