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> more support for finding and having the resources to evaluate them/admin support too
In the model I envision, people find their server through their IRL social networks, not by trawling through a web increasingly polluted by algorithm-generated slop. The evaluation is kind of built in.
Think of it as akin to the way a community group chooses a venue for in-person meetings. They're evaluating safety, values fit, etc, through direct knowledge of the people/ institutions.
There's a much-discussed #moderation challenge in the fediverse, that's solved by the smallest possible servers. Where if servers are large enough, they can get away with shifting the burden of moderating misbehaving accounts to the rest of the network. Either;
* Bad Actors on a large server have to be individually blocked
OR
* a few bad apple rot the whole bunch. Everyone on your server loses access to millions of well-behaved accounts to avoid the handful of under-moderated ones
Re: moderation, I agree smaller instances then avoids the “too big to block” issue. If it’s okay, I also want to elaborate, my personal concern is dealing with a large amount of incoming content. I’d be more interested in running my own instance for a few friends if I didn’t have to worry about being responsible for hosting something illegal that didn’t come from any of my friends. I imagine this is a barrier to some other people who would otherwise want to run an instance, too. This isn’t asking for a solution or anything, just describing a little.
This is a bonfire demo instance for testing purposes
