Post #2778075

2024-02-14 10:29 UTC

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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@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk 2024-02-14 10:32

Finally: So discussions about the technical capabilities (all posts are public), reasonableness of expectations (people are paranoid) and all of these other objections are moot if you are a responsible person developing tech that interacts with that community. Engage with the community, respect that community, and don't get mad if that community rejects your tech if you didn't do the legwork to discover the normative expectations of behaviour within that community. #bsky #bluesky

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@dalias@hachyderm.io 2024-02-14 11:02

@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk Where does that expectation come from? It's contrary to the whole promise of Mastodon and hasn't been true, ever. Mastodon has always interoperated (often imperfectly, of course) with other AP software like misskey, calkey or whatever it's called now, pixelfed, lemmy, and all the earlier things from before I was here, some even predating Mastodon. Usually you don't even know or care what software someone else's instance is running.

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@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone 2024-02-14 12:45

@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk this reminds me of danah boyd's thesis on teen publics ~15 years ago “their idea of public is not about all people across all space and all time. They want publics of peers, not publics where creeps and parents lurk.” This is part of the original twitter illusion - that you were talking to the people who you follow, not those who follow you, and not the firehose feed. That created a good normative sense for the most part, but the illusion broke with search and reply notifications

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