Obviously everyone's worried about instances disappearing and losing accounts and such.
The council of admins idea would also help there...provide admin resilience, not just diversity.
So, council of n exists. Continually changing by one member each day who vote on community stuff.
Original admin (sadly) loses life, but community can keep going because the council is taking care of things.
Of course, without original admin, bills won't be paid, no physical access to HW, etc..
cont.
@futuretro Yeah, so that's cool, and is doable now, but you obviously lose your community.
Obviously I'm envisaging a situation where the community is vital in itself...
I certainly feel that way, and I don't really know my community yet, but it seems to make a difference, because on twitter, family and friends were there and frankly I never felt so alone and so didn't tweet and felt like I was just talking to myself...
@orielle The vision we have is for Mastodon to take on individual branding/interest groups.
@futuretro Yeah, seems like that's the way things will go, but these things have to be organic. At best, there can be a declaration of a starting point for the community...
People change, so communities change, and that means the community itself has to be flexible. Single admin set-ups can be a dictatorship. Their time and effort, so their rules, but I suspect those kind of places will always feel slightly limiting. I'd prefer a community that allows itself to evolve...
@orielle Hit the nail on the spot!
I'm excited to see the community grow.
For the moment, just enjoy the ride :pineapple:
@futuretro @orielle You might want to add "followers" and "following" to that list.
@dredmorbius @orielle just start over. I'm sure they will find @user eventually
@futuretro I've done that too on occasion. Worked better than I'd thought.
@dredmorbius Fresh start. Clean slate. New leaf.
If following did some kind of public/private key verification thing, then it would allow identities to be verified regardless of account and instance. That coupled with the existing ability to export your info, could make setting up a new account and re-following result in the software noticing the identity is actually the same as the old one and automatically following back if it used to be the case...
and make migration trivial...
@orielle @dredmorbius Please get in touch with Eugen and let him know!
@futuretro @dredmorbius Well, I'm just thinking out loud really. I don't know how this stuff works, as it's not really my wheelhouse.
(I'm a software engineer specialising in 3D/geometry/lowlevel/optimisation most of my career, but doing general indie games stuff these days...unprofitably!)
@orielle @dredmorbius believe me, many of us have contemplated that question of "life after mastodon"
@orielle Yes, we've been discussing this. Worst case scenario, your instance implodes and you migrate to another instance, start over with same nick and emoji