I think I am uneasy because I am concerned about handing out ultimate power--as opposed to social power--to many different people of unpredictable ethics and morality, with limited ability to leave a toxic space without abandoning friends and limited ways of getting in touch with people who follow.
This is very much where I'm at. I've seen too many trusts betrayed in fandoms and too many friendship splits with ugly splatter radius to trust my ultimate technical and social power to the same people.
Newer fans especially don't know who to trust based on past interactions. I can all-too-easily envision a situation where PurityBNFAlpha runs an instance, and FanOmega joins that instance and becomes friends with everyone on that instance, and then they do or say something PurityBNFAlpha doesn't like and suddenly they're not just socially cut off, they are literally, physically blocked from interacting with their other friends on that instance. That's way too much power over my fannish experience to hand to one person.
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Date: 2019-02-03 04:23 pm (UTC)This is very much where I'm at. I've seen too many trusts betrayed in fandoms and too many friendship splits with ugly splatter radius to trust my ultimate technical and social power to the same people.
Newer fans especially don't know who to trust based on past interactions. I can all-too-easily envision a situation where PurityBNFAlpha runs an instance, and FanOmega joins that instance and becomes friends with everyone on that instance, and then they do or say something PurityBNFAlpha doesn't like and suddenly they're not just socially cut off, they are literally, physically blocked from interacting with their other friends on that instance. That's way too much power over my fannish experience to hand to one person.