In any case on Mastodon people have choice - if you don't like your local admins mod decisions, you can move elsewhere and take your followers with you, so if anything mods have far less power on Mastodon than most places.
The "I now have to run my own server, and tell my followers to move with me" is kinda the blocker here
In any case on Mastodon people have choice - if you don't like your local admins mod decisions, you can move elsewhere and take your followers with you, so if anything mods have far less power on Mastodon than most places.
The amount of power they have is same or even bigger, just over smaller amount of users.
The "I now have to run my own server, and tell my followers to move with me" is kinda the blocker here
Not what I suggested. You have 3k+ instances to pick from before you need to opt to run your own. And Mastodon has built in functionality to move followers for you. Could be smoother, but it works - I've used it. Took me <1h from initiating the move until most of my followers were following my new account with no actions on their side.
The amount of power they have is same or even bigger, just over smaller amount of users.
The very fact that people can move diminishes that power for any admin who cares about retaining users.
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The "I now have to run my own server, and tell my followers to move with me" is kinda the blocker here
The amount of power they have is same or even bigger, just over smaller amount of users.
Not what I suggested. You have 3k+ instances to pick from before you need to opt to run your own. And Mastodon has built in functionality to move followers for you. Could be smoother, but it works - I've used it. Took me <1h from initiating the move until most of my followers were following my new account with no actions on their side.
The very fact that people can move diminishes that power for any admin who cares about retaining users.