@MrJameGumb yeah I thought @Diplomjodler3 nailed it with “monetize my ass”. Then again people have been trying to commercialize the fediverse even before the term got invented – StatusNet got initial venture funding back in 2009 or so back when it was still the identifverse. So it’s a long-standing tension in fedi as a whole.

Mostly though I’m just entertained that people think that it’s self-promotion on my part 😂

@LiterallyLMAO I don’t think so. But why do you think this is self-promotion? I’ve got nothing to do with the project, and it’s news about the fediverse so it’s on-topic for this community.

@daveley Great question. A rew reasons:

- mastodon.social’s so big that the Local and Federated timelines aren’t very useful.

- smaller instances (even if they’re not special-interest focused) are more likely to have a good community.

- many other instances have “silenced” mastodon.social (because of its long history of moderation issues – or just because of the volume), so people on other instances are less likely to connect with you.

All that being said, I wasn’t trying to say that mastodon.social was terrible - it’s the advice that’s horrible. It’s just that for most people it’s not the best place to start.

@fediverse@lemmy.ml @fediverse@kbin.social

@sibrosan Thanks for the explanation!

@Kryostar @fediverse@lemmy.ml @fediverse@kbin.social

@sibrosan The server rules on your server explicitly prohibit transphobia.

So why do you see enforcing the rules by not federating with another server that’s got a long history of transphobia as “bias”?

@Kryostar @fediverse@lemmy.ml @fediverse@kbin.social

@sibrosan Like I say, opinions differ.

Why do you think so many trans and queer people – who are very likely to be directly impacted by transgressions of the rules – come to a different conclusion and advocate preemptively blocking?

See the “We’re here, we’re queer” section of https://privacy.thenexus.today/should-the-fediverse-welcome-surveillance-capitalism/#were-here-were-queer for more on that perspective.

@Kryostar @fediverse@lemmy.ml @fediverse@kbin.social

@sibrosan Or, if an instance that’s about to launch has a long history of discrimination, hate, violance, abuse, and contributions to genocide, you can announce your intention to defederate from them even before they launch.

Like I said in the post, opinions differ!

@Kryostar @fediverse@lemmy.ml @fediverse@kbin.social