Post by @wjmaggos@liberal.city

2026-07-23 07:08 UTC

@Mastodon@mastodon.social I don't get thinking of servers as a community, except to the degree something like the fans of a podcast start a server to talk to each other AND figure out the fedi. but communities are insular and that's the opposite of interoperability. and everybody will soon have friends off server that they feel like are part of their community. a server shares mod policy. in order to avoid centralization, when no other sensible division makes sense, let's separate servers by locality.

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@feyter@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-07-23 09:10

@wjmaggos@liberal.city @Mastodon@mastodon.social in fact moderation by topic makes sense, because local law of the district the server is located is one thing... But there are also social norms and behavior in a community that only members of that community can really understand. It's more about culture than about locality. However, the fediverse has become so interconnected, that this gets very blurry.

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@Tho99@mendeddrum.org 2026-07-23 12:10

@wjmaggos@liberal.city Quite a few old timers from alt.fan.pratchett and various cons & meets make the drum their home. Simplifies quite a few things.

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@Scofisticated@socel.net 2026-07-24 13:10

@wjmaggos@liberal.city From what I read, it seems you are saying communities are inherently insular. is that the case? Fedi servers can have a theme to center around a subject. But I dont think that limits what a post in that instance can be about. Unlike groups in FB, posts can be off topic. And off topic posts can hashtag into other subjects. Making it included in a diff community on the Fedi. Also, the Fedi is a community - of communities. At least that is how I see it can be. @Mastodon@mastodon.social

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