#benevolentdictator — Public Fediverse posts

The CEO of #Meta, Mark #Zuckerberg, has personally and repeatedly thwarted initiatives to improve the wellbeing of teenagers on #Facebook and #Instagram, sometimes directly bypassing some of his most senior lieutenants, according to internal communications made public as part of an ongoing lawsuit against the company:
https://www.mass.gov/news/ag-campbell-files-lawsuit-against-meta-instagram-for-unfair-and-deceptive-practices-that-harm-young-people

#addiction #safety #benevolentDictator #socialMedia #phone

@kkarhan @Elizafox

There is no #BenevolentDictator in a system that works well. Instead, we have well-informed users who understand that as a #sysadmin, my job is to balance #security, usability and stability to the best of my ability, for their benefit.

Stability is measured by 'whatever worked yesterday continues to work today'. Usability means that the systems support doing what the users need and want them to do. And security means certainty that the information that they don't want to share is not, and the information that they want to share to a few people only goes to them.

Every user has their own priorities for each of these things. Tradeoffs and costs are inevitable; some of these are influenced by #infrastructure choices and history. But it's not a dictatorship, benevolent or otherwise: I inform my users of what is happening, what is planned and what is likely to occur. They inform me of their needs and desires related to the systems. They trust my general approach but sometimes question specific plans -- that's the relationship of professionals.

@witchescauldron Yes, there is a #dictatorForLife element in FOSS but it is, around moreso the branding of a piece of software. The great thing with FOSS is people get to democratically choose their #benevolentDictator.

We saw this recently with the jump from Audacity to #Tenacity, from Gitea to #Forgejo.

When the community senses that the benevolentDictator has gone, they tend to move like starlings away from it.

@gabrielazf
The Mastodon team chooses other priorities than #GDPR: https://hachyderm.io/@maugendre/109364637095033135 #benevolentDictator #governance #communitySafety

A few initiatives are available for #MastoAdmins to only "patch" the privacy problem. Here is a reference: https://hachyderm.io/@maugendre/109422699499509243 #MastoAdmin

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#dataDon #personsNotUsers #safety ☕#personalSafety 👪#communitySafety #security #protection 🌱#dataProtection #dataPrivacy #privacy ㊙️​#secrecy #confidentiality #dataGovernance 🧩#communityGovernance #decisionMaking #sharedGovernance #consensus 🏠#powerSharing #cooperation 🎯#networkPolitics #orgGovernance 🧱#orgDev 🐻#benevolence #benevolentDictator #deathOfManagement #management

The way of working structures the #governance. Many "derivatives" have been created out of #Mastodon: each flavour uses two code packs:
🌳 the main software strategy is presided by one person (the founder as #benevolentDictator, Eugen Rochko);
🍃 a bough software depends on the former.

🎯#Naming: A bough is a big branch of a tree, usually a primary one directly attached to the #trunk.
Pronunciation: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bough#Pronunciation
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#dependencies #MastodonHistory #softwareDevelopment #orgDesign #ecosystem

Do not direct your #development requests to people who wish to reject them: https://social.teci.world/@realcaseyrollins/posts/AP5DQvSCdyJ2vEmgXQ by @realcaseyrollins #savesTime
Here is an example or #benevolentDictator #leadership problems: https://ubiqueros.com/notes/97fkja3pi1 by @Are0h
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#Mastodon #GitHub 🧱#orgDesign #governance #forks #forking #networkPolitics 🧩#orgGovernance #devGovernance 🧩#communityGovernance #decisionMaking 🧐#sharedGovernance #consensus 🏠#powerSharing #cooperation #FLOSS #FOSS 👇🏾

The governance of #Mastodon has been a heated subject for a long time: here is an excellent article by Ana Valens (dated 2019) on the power plays in Mastodon development: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/mastodon-fediverse-eugen-rochko/ #benevolence #power 🌈#alphabetMafia #networkPolitics #devGovernance #longread #peopleNotUsers
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#benevolentDictator #EugenRochko #Rochko #leadership #security #moderation #MastodonHistory #governance #protection 🌱#dataProtection #dataPrivacy #privacy (to be continued: 👇🏾)

{About #MastodonForks; #installment 1}
I have a hint that a conversation on the #governance of #Mastodon flavours would be useful. Here is a #longThread 🧶
Let us talk about the struggle between creator and #community. This time we include newly arrived people.
I will propose how to alleviate with shortcuts.
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#benevolence #benevolentDictator #leadership #power #politics #longRead #peopleNotUsers #networkPolitics 🧩#orgGovernance #devGovernance 👇🏾