SeedyOne
Actually, as great as Lewis writes and as acclaimed as his career is, he completely failed with SBF and fell for the con. He was so enamored with SBF he even told friends to "buy whatever Sam says" at one point. The case later releasing the slack chats contradict his book heavily and while it's common for Lewis to cast controversial subjects in a positive light (Wolf of Wall Street), this one was over the top and a bit of a disaster.
In fact, Behind the Bastards did a great 2 part podcast this month specifically on SBF and Lewis' embedding in his camp. It's fascinating.
I'm glad it's on the books at least. Have to start somewhere and set precedents otherwise nothing ever changes.
Whichever way instances decide to go there's a few things people should remember:
- We're lucky to have this option even if it's divisive at times.
- It's not always about what we know will happen, sometimes it's concern over possibilities we couldn't even imagine at the time.
- Growth is great but there's infrastructure, moderators and policies that can be overwhelmed.
- Defederation can be reversed at any time if things change.
I felt similar at the start of S3 but by the end I was hooked again. In fact, I thought when Jemaine left the writing team it couldn't possibly be as good but I have to say the writing held up.
Sure does seem that way.
You're just the right kind of evil, that's amazing.
Thank you, someone finally looking big picture. I see a lot of folks talking about things like "it won't harm Threads" or "the federation is all about inclusiveness and joining together" and those people, while correct on paper, are missing the point.
Put simply, many instances would prefer not to deal with that unnatural influx, and that is their choice. In fact, the best part of the fediverse is not only that they CAN make that choice it's that they can UNDO it later if need be. I can't fault some of these smaller instances for being proactive in protecting themselves when few here really know what goes into running and moderating.
Thanks for the clarification, your second to last line says it all. Sometimes it's easy to forget that many online lack critical thinking skills and/or don't consider the source when browsing. Better to accommodate the lowest common denominator when possible...but to expect that from a biased, private site is asking a lot IMHO.
You shouldn't expect it from ANY site really.
Historical precedent and #2/#3 on my list above make the case for erring on the side of caution. That and we've got far more to lose than to gain.