This is a smart and well-reasoned article considering the ramifications of "smaller Fediverse instances like woof.group will be able to interact with much larger instances. Threads now claims over a hundred million accounts." Woof has about 1,000 members, which makes interaction a challenge, but Woof also serves LGBTQ+ leather people, which offers opportunities for interaction with larger communities of the same people on (say) Instagram and Tumblr, but also creates concerns about how they will be moderated and how they will moderate others. I can't really summarize the whole discussion here, but as I said, it's quite smart, and well worth your time reading. If it works for you, substitute your favourite alternative community for Woof in the discussion - Mormons, say, or socialists, or environmentalists, or herbalists, or astrologers, or.... whatever. All these considerations apply. And note well: understanding how we manage such differences in the fediverse is key to understanding how we manage them in society at large, because like it or not, we all interact. Via Boris Mann.
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