[jtode]

Again though, you need to examine your expectations here. These are not Admins who have qualified for a job - some might happen to be that, but most are not. Most are just people who want this to happen, again, and are doing their best.

That being said, new tools come out all the time to improve the situation; "we" (I am not an admin, just a fan) are figuring out what a functioning federated social network needs by doing a federated social network. Mistakes will be made.

The answer to the mistakes is not retreating to "monolithic single-entry service only without billions of dollars of startup capital," which is what your advice to only go to the biggest instance smacks of.

There is a new thing, I encountered the hashtag yesterday but I can't recall it now and I didn't look closely, but it's some sort of database I think in which instance admins can leave notes and ratings of other instances, or something like that. I wish I could remember the hashtag, but it looks to me like an attempt to at least start setting up a clearing house type thing for the deeper details of instance administration.

I believe the problem it was created to solve has more to do with moderation and lazy admins who don't bother doing it, but it could easily be extended to examine the settings of instances and give users optics.

I'm certainly not saying that you should not point out that this is happening, by the way, and if your admin was lazy/complacent/obnoxious about it, you are quite correct to leave. I, likewise, chose to leave the main instance some time back, and I'm not gonna get into why, it was different and personal reasons, and the miracle of this network is that I found a new place that suits me as well.

I do think your piece reads as entitled and ignorant, and you should give it a rewrite with a better understanding that you are addressing a community, not a company.

edit: OP has decided he doesn't want me to comment further apparently, I am no longer able to reply, but I can still edit.

In response to the reply below, I lost all my posts on Lemmy a few weeks ago because of a CSAM post attack which basically made them need to wipe the database, from what I read. Shit happens when you're doing something out of pocket with nothing but what's at hand.

The entire Fediverse is experimental and held together with duct tape and spit. Don't make the mistake of thinking it isn't again.

That said, I stand corrected in my original, flip response. lapcat did not advocate going back to Twitter.

[lapcat]

> These are not Admins who have qualified for a job

I've become painfully aware of that.

> That being said, new tools come out all the time to improve the situation

Actually, the new "tool" — the content cache retention period — was the problem here, not the solution. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/19232

> I do think your piece reads as entitled and ignorant, and you should give it a rewrite with a better understanding that you are addressing a community, not a company.

I think your comments read as obtuse and ignorant. They smack of false dichotomies, as if any criticism of Mastodon is support of Twitter, kind of like the attitude that any criticism of Apple is support of Google, or any criticism of Democrats is support of Republicans. Your very first comment above: "The experimental platform with no VC funding whatsoever messed up, I'm going back to the fascist wasteland that is trying to juice me for money by showing me enraging content." Whereas my article had nothing whatsoever to do with Twitter, which wasn't even mentioned, and which I already left permanently. Also, Mastodon is not "experimental". It's more than 7 years old now.

> edit: OP has decided he doesn't want me to comment further apparently, I am no longer able to reply, but I can still edit.

Hacker News doesn't have a feature to block replies. (I wish it did.)

[jtode]

I replied to myself above, but it seems that there's a delay between a comment appearing and the ability to reply.

My bad, OP, you are not censorious.

edit: and you, speaking directly, did not advocate for Twitter. I was way off on that one point.

[jtode]

It's strange, but I think I figured it out - there's some sort of delay, seemingly, between a response appearing in the thread and the option to reply being there.

So let me leave my wrong statement above intact and add that OP did not censor me, I just have no patience for this service, apparently lol

[walterbell]

How many humans (1-10? 10-100? 100-1000?) from the Mastodon community signed off on the Mastodon feature/policy which enabled admins to (inadvertently?) delete user content without advance notice to affected users?

[jtode]

I'm not sure what's my favorite part of this question, but I think it's the fact that you undoubtedly have, like me, agreed to all sorts of outlandish terms on corporate EULAs.

You saw the South Park episode, what they call it, with the... oh yeah, The Human Centipad, you saw that, right?

Does Mastodon even have an EULA? Maybe it needs one. It could say "Your data is your data, we do not own it, we won't sell it, and we also won't guarantee to store it for you indefinitely, so do your backups like a smart person."

edit cause I can't be bothered anymore

> lessons will be learnt eventually.

Yep. Have a great day!