I don’t know why I keep writing posts about platforms because in the end it’s just annoying. Annoying because I could’ve expressed myself better, and annoying because people like to get hung up on that one weak part and discard the whole post as a result

Could my perception of moderation be skewed? Maybe. Maybe yours is. But let’s say I’m wrong. How does that change the fact that instance = community isn’t a good abstraction? Very few people are only ever part of one community; standards of behavior differ depending on which community you engage in, and may even conflict. And yet, I have to choose one that gets to dictate my whole being on the network. Transfer this to real life and imagine you’d have to be your worksona 24/7 forever (because work is also a “community”). I can’t be the only one who feels this is weird, right?

@volpeon it also puts a lot of pressure on the instance administrators to keep the infra running.

especially the fact that you can’t just simply say „I’ll take my profile and now use this other space to host everything“, there’s this implicit expectation that one keeps the instance running for ages.

if moderation and hosting would be more decoupled, it’d be easier to find „the“ community where it just feels right. or one could reuse one account to join a different community, just like I can use one StackExchange account to participate in totally different communities.

@volpeon yeah, this whole thing extends to microblogging as a whole, because everything you post ends up on the timeline of everyone who follows you without any reasonable way to say who it's for

@jasmin @volpeon Well there is that concept of nomadic identity.that floats around im Hubzilla so that might be something?

https://joinfediverse.wiki/Nomadic_identity