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:
- Don’t tell people “it’s easy”
- Improve the “getting-started experience”
- Keep scalability and sustainability in mind
- Prioritize accessibility
- Get ready for trolls, hate speech, harassment, spam, porn, and disinformation
- Invest in moderation tools
- Experiment to find what approaches are a good fit for the current state of the software
- Values matter
- This is a great opportunity – and it won’t be the last great opportunity
4 points
At first I thought just like you that I can pick any and it won’t matter. But then I found that some instances defederate others and some ppl won’t even see what you type. Just like shadow banning, but for a whole instance. I don’t understand why thry do that, it will hurt the communities a lot.
2 points