Post #2778074

2024-02-14 10:25 UTC

Two: A community's normative expectations need to be taken into account, for example, that posts are only easily visible to a certain subsection of the fediverse. These expectations may (and often are) completely disconnected from the technical capabilities of the service (e.g. that posts are publicly available), and that's okay. We encounter these expectations of behaviour despite capabilities for different behaviour all the time in the real world. Social contracts regulate them.

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@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk 2024-02-14 10:29

Three: A normative expectation for mastodon is that posts stay on servers that share your server's norms. There are many and varied reasons for this, many of which are reasonable, some of which are perhaps a bit paranoid, but how reasonable or paranoid they are does not invalidate them as reasons for normative expectations of behaviour within the mastodon environment for their community. You don't have to like or agree with it, but you should respect it when interacting with the community.

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@michaelgemar@mstdn.ca 2024-02-14 20:07

@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk This seems to be the crux of things — pro-bridging folks seem focussed on the tech, and anti-people are talking about the culture. And all that means the two groups are somewhat talking past each other.

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