@34a3cff1fb40 @raboof @gregory @ufoi @Raspberry_Pi
The problem generally is that admins seek things that make life easier for admins and user pain is never truly an admin problem. Particularly when it's volunteer driven.
Something like ufoi sounds good to admins because it addresses admin problems.
For users ultimately admin remain judge, jury and executioner. Users have no teeth in the game.
We're not even ad revenue here.
@jstorrs @34a3cff1fb40 @raboof @gregory @ufoi @Raspberry_Pi@raspberrypi.social "Everybody wants to rule the world" --Tears for Fears
We saw this in online text games back in the day. We see this on Minecraft and any other popular game where anyone can start a server, invite their friends to be moderators, then open it to the public to lord their godling powers over lesser beings and mortals... DAMN NEAR EVERY FSCKIN' TIME. I run several game servers (only one at a time) whitelisted so I don't have to put up with staff abuse. Me, @mikmaqpeek, her adult son, and a very few close long-time friends. I'd rather not bother, but it is in self-defence against the very human nature you describe with Mastodon.
I even considered starting an instance JUST so I wouldn't have to put up with that crap. I'm very glad I found @freemo before it came to that.
If you really want to solve the problem, redo the protocol so setting up an "instance" is stupid easy, doesn't depend on a "mothership" of any sort, and let everyone be the godling they claim they want to be AND enjoy every last consequence of it... in full, good and hard. Mastodon, as everyone deemed unfit by the "we hate fascists so much we are fascist about it" group is finding out. Mastodon has several forms of "motherships" and you'd best kiss the ring if you want to play.
Yeah thanks. Pass.
