[Adminsysters] Looking for feedback on two questions regarding Systerserver Town

[Helen Varley Jamieson]

hi, i answered this via the /etc list & i'm guessing everyone on this 
list is also on that ... but in case, here's my 2 cents:

my knowledge on the threads/facebook thing is not deep, but anything 
meta/facebook does is ultimately going to be profit motivated, & their 
record as far as moderation & disinformation goes is terrible, so right 
now i can't really find a compelling reason to federate with them.

regarding cis men - i wonder why a cis man might want an account on 
systerserver.town, when there are plenty of other instances they can 
apply to. we have created our own space/niche because we need it, & i'd 
hope that feminist cis men would understand and support that 🙂

h : )

On 31.08.24 15:24, Anne Roth wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> we just had our (more or less) monthly meeting on running 
> systerserver.town and came across some questions we'd like to decide 
> on in the near future.
>
> We have some thoughts but we're interested in more opinions and so 
> we'd like to invite you all to add yours. No strings attached! You 
> won't need to engage any more than you like. However, anyone who'd 
> like to join us is of course very welcome.
>
> _The open questions_
>
> Currently systerserver.town is not open for anyone to register an 
> account but instead we approve accounts one by one. General guideline 
> is "We currently approve accounts by invitation, from the Systerserver 
> community and request some kind of demonstration of acquaintance with 
> the community."
>
> Question #1: *Are we open for cis men* ?
>
> To give you some background: Currently systerserver.town is a very 
> quiet place. We have approx. 100 registered accounts of which some 40 
> are active.
>
> We haven't had any requests by cis men yet (as far as we know), so 
> it's not a pressing issue but it would be nice to get some opinions 
> and make a decision and be clear about his.
>
> What do you think?
>
>
>
>
> And, different topic, we've been looking at how we handle the blocking 
> of servers. Blocking on Mastodon can be done at different levels: you 
> can block another user through your account, but the instance (the 
> server) your account is registered at can also block either specific 
> users or more broadly other servers. Which means that the users of 
> systerserver.town can't interact with either the single user that was 
> blocked or with all of the users of that server, if the server is 
> blocked.
>
> We don't have rules yet and we're currently researching. If you have 
> thoughts, knowledge, experience in this field, please share it with us.
>
> The specific question #2 here is:
>
> *Should we federate with Facebook* / *Threads or do we block that* ?
>
> There's been a major debate about this, see e.g. 
> https://engineering.fb.com/2024/03/21/networking-traffic/threads-has-entered-the-fediverse/
> https://mstdn.social/@feditips/111585534320522781
> https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/14eg8ai/facebook_fosstodon_the_fediverse/ 
>
> https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/13/24000120/threads-meta-activitypub-test-mastodon 
>
>
> What do you think?
>
>
> Also, if you don't have an account on systerserver.town but would like 
> to have one, please register at systerserver.town/auth/sign_up and 
> send us a message that this is you, and we'll approve you asap.
>
> Currently the contact mailing address is gaba at riseup.net. You can also 
> message me or write to systertown at lists.systerserver.net.
>
> Some of us will be at the 'Global Gathering' near Lisbon at the end of 
> September 
> https://wiki.digitalrights.community/index.php?title=Global_Gathering_2024: 
> If you're also going, please let us know - we'll try and find the time 
> for a get together to talk about Systerserver Town.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Anne
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helen varley jamieson

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