I just keep being like--what happens if people stop being able to afford all these servers everywhere? Or the person hosting burns out on keeping it up? It's relying on so many people to do so much work. Even if you want to assume they all mean well and moderate perfectly and don't go off on power trips or flounce. I modded a discord of several hundred people for a while and it was just a mind-boggling amount of work. For a reward of basically 'people get mad at you for making different decisions than they would have'. And the people running instances will have to own domains, which will make them more easily doxxable by someone who doesn't like their ruleset (because they allow underage or ship the wrong thing in a contentious fandom or etc etc etc).
Muccamukk above said they're going to jump in and try it outt, but honestly I just don't have the mental bandwidth to maintain presences in too many places at once, if I tried to jump into this federated stuff I'd end up having to drop something I use already. I'd already ditched tumblr months ago because I couldn't keep up with both it *and* twitter *and* discord.
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Date: 2019-02-03 09:09 pm (UTC)Muccamukk above said they're going to jump in and try it outt, but honestly I just don't have the mental bandwidth to maintain presences in too many places at once, if I tried to jump into this federated stuff I'd end up having to drop something I use already. I'd already ditched tumblr months ago because I couldn't keep up with both it *and* twitter *and* discord.