Ava @orielle@octodon.social

So I think someone's afraid of the Mastodon:

https://www.recode.net/2017/4/6/15208314/twitter-ev-williams-founder-board-selling-stock

#cashingoutbeforetwitterstockisworthless

;-)

...and we're back. Much love to our generous and image loving mother @CobaltVelvet xx

Oh noes. Someones stolen the images...

#JustWaitTilIGetMyHandsOfThoseGodDamnImageStealingRuffians

So when my pet cat died, I was really bummed...

...but nowhere near as much as my pet evil genius was. He sank in to a deep depression and gave up on life. He threw away his lasers. Freed his sharks. Just plain gave up on his dreams. It was just so heartbreaking to watch.

#IBelieveInYouBlofeld
#YouCANDestroyTheWorld
#OhAndStopExplainingYourEvilPlansToTheGoodGuyBeforeYouKillHim
#JustJokingIDontHaveACat
#HasItOccurredToAnyoneElseThatAllTheCatLoversOnTheInternetAreJustVillainsWaitingToHappen?

So I just realised I've been using "favourite" this whole time, when in my head I was "boosting"...

...it's official, I no longer know how things work.

#IsItOldAgeOrTheLossOfTooManyBrainCells?
#ALifetimeOfSelfAbuse
#ButInAGoodWay

Too early for wine? Never! ;-)
#ICanStopAnytimeIWant
#NoReally

"Let's play a game, to help some of the newcomers make connections: name 5-7 things that interest you but aren't in your profile, as tags so they are searchable. Then boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same."

#makingmusic
#shoes
#programming
#creating
#transitioning

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.

#random.
#community
#thoughts

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.

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...

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