@supernovae @benny You're ignoring these 100s of instances who are happy and protective of their local communities and whose communities don't feel *at all* that agency is being witheld from them, because you don't like moderation. We've known for years that Eugen isn't a fan of local instance communities (I've been here since 2016), but he has so far listened to the will of the people in not taking those away from us, because our voices in keeping the local feed have been strong and unanimous.

@supernovae @benny "There is a big picture problem of the HOA vibe on mastodon" There isn't. There are hundreds of instances who love their local feeds, who love public posts, whose users love having those things, and whose users are happy having those things and having the moderation teams of their instances being responsive, accountable, and willing to put in the work to keep them safe.

Keeping people proactively safe is not 'taking away their agency'. Their agency to what -not get harassed?

There's no 'lack of rationality'. What he means is, he's brought up these ideas before, and opinion hasn't changed. He can't understand why local feeds are valuable to instances that run as communities, so any opposition to it is considred 'irrational' and 'tribalism' to him. He's a white guy in tech, he's not used to having his opinions challenged, especially when they're being challenged in favor of building safe spaces* for communities that normally face oppression and discrimination. 🧵

For anyone reading this and thinking 'wow, Byron's doing some good honorable work here that sounds really difficult', what he means when he says 'dealing with other admins' is going into the Mastodon Discord and suggesting changes to Mastodon that would harm community instances, like removing the local feed, and then getting told by other admins that that's a bad idea.

There's plenty of rational discourse, it's just not in favor of his idea, which must be a pretty new thing for a white guy.🧵