How do people decide which instance to be on? How do you work through confusion of same acct names on different instances? Should we namestake on every instance we can and see which one seems best suited to us? How did you pick?
@nancybaym Homophily. It looks like most of the social computing researchers are finding their way to octodon.social.
@nancybaym I was initially drawn to the name of this server, but I also took note that @natematias also chose this one before I registered.
@erhardt @natematias excellent criteria. if it's good enough for nate....
@nancybaym @natematias I might trust him too much. As a researcher of community governance, Nathan could either be leading us into particularly well-functioning or particularly chaotic systems...
@erhardt @nancybaym I made a very quick decision. But I have definitely seen the sysop manage scaling challenges very well, and there are discussions of polls & other democratic governance possibilities. And in the worst case scenario, we can always "scoot"
For octodon updates, follow the sysop @CobaltVelvet Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/CobaltVelvet
After submitting the diss, I'm tempted to make an OAuth voting extension (which we also need on reddit). I expect that people will want to figure out how to sustain & manage the instance, starting in a few days
But that's a total guess, from observing the current focus on just keeping the system running. I have no special private knowledge.
@erhardt @nancybaym @natematias oh no is nate leading us collectively to social ruin?
@erhardt For any particular reason? I picked octodon through dumb luck and timing.