The fediverse has always grown in waves, and it looks like the next one's in progress.

I had shared an earlier version of this last week, and a draft of the updates a few days ago. Thanks to everybody for the feedback!

Here’s the key points:

  1. Don’t tell people “it’s easy”
  2. Improve the “getting-started experience”
  3. Keep scalability and sustainability in mind
  4. Prioritize accessibility
  5. Get ready for trolls, hate speech, harassment, spam, porn, and disinformation
  6. Invest in moderation tools
  7. Experiment to find what approaches are a good fit for the current state of the software
  8. Values matter
  • This is a great opportunity – and it won’t be the last great opportunity
  • greensky
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    1 year ago

    Most of the time it won’t matter. Only a few instances defederated and it won’t impact most users. They mostly did it temporarily because they couldn’t handle the massive number of users who came from reddit.