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@mathias
1. if it's a pure hobby, go ahead and have fun.
2. If it's a production system, do not mess with the nature. It's better to have a running COBOL machine with 0 downtime for 20 years, than a "modern &^%*@" which delivers only 75% of time and is a PITA otherwise.
3. If it's a thing in between, apply own judgment, for instance like this: "my past experience shows that now I am about to spend 4 hours of my time just to end up where I am already today. In those 4 hours, I could have gone for a walk with the love of my life, play a game of chess with my child, or read a book 🤔 ".... And then recall my golden rule again 😄 .

@mathias Golden rule of a senior SW professional: _do not change the winning configuration_.

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Took me like 20 seconds. I was already ready to not to believe what I think and then...

@piggo that's why I welcome efforts like #ufoi. I mean, it can be badly drafted, maybe executed, most likely it will fail, no problem with that, but eventually something in that direction sounds like a useful thing for the users.

@piggo Well, I understand you run your own instance, so it's your personal choice. But if you do the same when you have thousands of users at your instance, you are effectively preventing ALL of them to interact with the other one. What right do you have to do that? I mean, if the rules clearly state that that you are the dictator there, I am fine with that. But most of the time it's not the case. And then 2 things happen:
1. you feel good about yourself because you won the game; and
2. your users end up shafted.

As a born guerrilla fighter, I see a potential for an uprising of users against admins here.

I got interested in this #UFOI stuff lately and it makes my brain hurt and heart sink. What a drama on all sides.

I think it's a great example of #MastoAdmin silly games and feuds at the expense of users of these instances. An admin A does not like admin B and that is the reason for blocking thousands of users of B's instance from thousands of users of A. And that we call "moderation", right? Nice! (mind you, if B's users are ugly people in A's userbase opinion _en masse_, that's another story)

I even read from somebody that all what is wrong with an instance is that its users tend to be mildly annoying and that's a good reason to defederate the instance (https://witches.live/@anna/109480217595539880). Lovely. And that's how we want to become a better alternative to corporate social networks? Good luck boys and girls in the #MastoAdmin world! This way you only lose trust of us, the normal users of this network.

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Sincerely yours,

"Annoying reply guy"

> flagrant bigotry as the bar for intervening to protect vulnerable people from a poorly run instance

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@ladyparabellum

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@josh

@Meachamus_Prime

Let's just say: There's a lot of impatient people.

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