Ava @orielle@octodon.social
A very disorderly mind in a highly dysfunctional body. ⚧ ⚢ 🦋
@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!)
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...
@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...
@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...
Some kind of ability for secure, authenticated, server migration would be useful now regardless, but could be useful in that theoretical council situation.
Perhaps it would require a unanimous vote, for example.
So.
Current entire council die in freak accident....just have to wait 30 days for it to be rebuilt with new members...at which point they all vote to relocate to a new server which they are able to manage and continue the community with...
I know.
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.
@davidblinux No such luck...I'm still rocking an old 5S! ;-) Would like to switch to a pixel or something like that, but size is an issue for me...well, it used to be. Now that my collection of handbags is increasing it might not matter anymore...
Further to my previous post:
Admin duty should be like jury duty and the tools should be extra easy to use, so that anyone in an instance could do it.
Then you'd set up a desired "council" size, say soemthing like 30 people, and have pool change by one person every day, so that no one ever has to lose their free time to doing admin work...
(plus then, it would be self-balancing...content moderation would actually be the product of the entire instance, so more homogenous in the end...)
So this is great and everything, but I've got to think that instances with thousands of users isn't really the way forward, rather, <1000 but many more instances. Remove points of failure, remove censorship, remove the need for one individual to bare massive hosting costs...
If someone comes up with an almost hands-off, one-click service for setting up instances of a limited size for a fixed cost per month, it would absolutely make a killing...
@Facebook @Twitter You jest, but while it can never die due to OSS, I imagine it would be rather easy to subdue instances the same way big companies always subdue small ones...exhaust their resources. In this case, that would just meaning creating bots to create accounts and spam instances continually until the sysadmin gives up or runs out of money... :-( Of course if any large company was ever caught doing such a thing, they'd have hung themselves...
Morning octadon and fediverse! Well, I say morning, but I'm still in bed doing my best to sleep in, which is nowhere near as much fun when you've got HRT related tinnitus... #wittyhashtag
Ok, done for the day...night, night #octodon
So I just looked at the live instances list...it's pretty much doubled since this morning...(though most of them are closed to signups for now with only 1 user...)
It will be interesting to see what lives and what dies as things ramp up. I can see features that don't scale well dying off, instances that come and go with little to no warning and so people effectively losing their audience without any notice... (of course all these things will be solvable, it might just take time...)
@bradamant @CobaltVelvet Oh, without a doubt! But that part of me that likes make believe likes the idea of an eight headed/trunked monster more. See earlier childish toots and adolescent SOH for reference... :-)
@tcql Ahh, right. Must be an Amaroq thing then! ;-)
So I don't know if it's an amaroq thing or an octodon thing, but be aware that your toots currently don't appear in the federated timeline by default peeps...(you have to manually change the visibility setting from unlisted to public...)
@Averly I like it! ;-)
@bradamant That's what brought me here too...turns out I was wrong. It's a South American rodent!
@TimeSnow Put a scary mask on and shout boo!?
