You're So Vain, You Probably Think This App Is About You: On Meta and Mastodon

Re:You're So Vain, You Probably Think This App Is About You:... by MForster on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @03:01AM (#36677384)

I think that's the wrong analogy. It's more: Why does a landlord not get a say in who their tenants invite to dinner?

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Re:You're So Vain, You Probably Think This App Is About You:... by tedunangst on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @03:24AM (#36677540)

Because their tenants are free loaders? If you're paying for the service, I'd expect a greater degree of autonomy. Unless the service you're paying for is for somebody else to make moderation and federation decisions for you.

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Re:You're So Vain, You Probably Think This App Is About You:... by blowski on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @03:12AM (#36677459)

Housing is a scarce commodity, so we have rules about how it’s allocated. Mastodon servers have no such scarcity - if you don’t like the rules on a server, set up your own.

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Re:You're So Vain, You Probably Think This App Is About You:... by JohnFen on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @02:43PM (#36685465)

I think that tedunangst's analogy was more appropriate, personally.

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