#fediquette — Public Fediverse posts

I keep boosting funny posts and then realising that they were set to ‘quiet‐public’, and then begrudgingly un‐boosting them. Am I right in thinking that it's bad #etiquette to boost such a post or am I worrying over nothing?

#Fediquette #Fediverse #Mastodon

Da mir das in der lokalen Timeline grad wieder massiv aufgefallen ist:
Hashtags sind übrigens Auffindungselemente und keine Textelemente.

Ich kann solche Tröts nicht lesen.

Falls ich irgendwann die Energie dazu habe, transkribiere ich mal einen Tröt mit Inline-Hashtags in meine Wahrnehmung.

#Neurodiversität #Wahrnehmung #InlineHashtag #Hashtags #SocialMedia #Fediquette #Fedikette

What's the etiquette here on screenshotting and publishing an unsolicited DM which engages with the substance of a public toot, in order to reply to it?

I've contacted the person who sent me the unsolicited DM to ask them to make it public, but I've had no response.

#fediquette

OK, so, not to dunk on anybody, but for Pete's sake, if you're going to post a heartrending sob story about a beloved pet who needs a new home, SAY WHERE.
(Ditto for any other situation where the location is actually relevant. Sheesh. People fail at this ALL THE TIME. It's ridiculous.)
#FediTips #fediquette

@egghat Ich bin nicht an Fußball interessiert und filtere entsprechende Hashtags. Also danke für’s taggen!
#fediquette #hashtag #filter

Finde schon ganz schön frech, Top-10 Hashtags von einem Bot zu holen und diese dann in einen Beitrag zu kopieren, der nur aus einem Spendenaufruf besteht.

Nichts gegen Spendenaufrufe im Fediverse, innerhalb der eigenen Blase finde ich’s legitim, sich zu unterstützen.

Aber dieses Vorgehen empfinde ich als aggressiv und belästigend.

Ganz egal ob Spendenaufruf oder etwas anderes, man nötigt damit den Beitrag in die Timeline von Leuten, die gerade ganz anderen Inhalt sehen wollen 😠
#FediQuette

@pixelcats

Not at all! I love @FediTips, I boost their posts and send links to their work often. Our Help Centre is specifically geared towards Mastodon.social users, and the #fediquette guide is intended as a quick primer to help people get up to speed on our cultural norms.

When it comes to getting the word out about the #Fediverse, and educating people about how to have a good time here, I generally take the attitude more better!

@Mastodon

I'm equally—maybe even more—excited about another resource in our Help Centre.

#Fediquette: A Community Etiquette Guide

Our community is full of passionate people who care deeply about improving accessibility and respecting consent. This resource will help newcomers to understand our cultural norms here in the #fediverse and #SocialWeb.

https://help.joinmastodon.org/article/13-fediquette-community-etiquette-guide

If #fedi instances, or accounts on instances, come and go frequently in alpha software, would that kind of churn cause problems with other instances on the #Fediverse? What is the #fediquette for #fediDev?

Look, I don't want to tell other people how to do the fediverse, but here's a tip some of you may find useful: you really don't need to boost every single post in a long thread. If you do, then anyone who doesn't care about the thread is going to be really annoyed, and they may decide to hide all your boosts or unfollow you completely. Be considerate.
Similarly, if you're posting a long thread it's good #fediquette to make posts after the first "quiet" visibility.
#feditips

I hope this thread helps members understand community needs and costs, and helps people stay mindful and intentional on instances

Many admins and mods run at little to no profit — we’re just people with all sorts of life events and struggles, managing instances with little to no help from Mastadon

It’s not just your report or feedback — it’s hundreds to thousands each week or day

We’re happy to have you! Please keep in mind community needs while you’re here

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The above activities can lead to instances:

shutting down due to legal issues (why defederating from instances is vital, given different international laws)

running out of money to run the instance (especially if donating members quit due to safety issues)

admin/mod burnout and difficulty recruiting volunteers (most instances aren’t big enough to generate profit to financially pay off as a job; those that are, only some are paid, others volunteer)

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If you don’t want rules, moderation, defederation (protecting everyone and the instance itself) and don’t realize you’re joining communities that run higher costs because of your presence

Mastadon (or other decentralized platforms like Discord that function similarly) may not be right for you

Even if you donate to instances, you may cost instances more

One bad actor heavily attacking Disabled.Social cost a community fundraiser event — we can’t do it all

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This is why it’s a smart business and safety decision to limit or suspend members violating rules and requests from admins/mods on different instances, who try to create instance wars and safety problems:

pitting communities against each other

migrating to new instances to post about ex instances

wanting instances to not use critical moderating tools like rules, strikes systems, admins/mods communicating issues across different instances, suspensions, defederating

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Members used to heavily posting on centralized social media platforms may not realize doing so on their Mastadon instances costs admins and mods more money, time and energy via increased demands on storage, bandwidth, and server processing power

That doesn’t mean we don’t want you to be here or post! It just means your admins and mods appreciate intentional posting (focused on community needs or news, not just ourselves) and donations that help the community exist

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Admins and mods (not Mastadon) make and uphold instance rules and moderation to reduce conflict and maintain safety

This is financially (not just legally) smart

When a member violates rules, that member may generate more engagement responses and resultingly more moderation reports — increasing financial and labor burdens of admins and mods (with less money, time, ability to focus on other tasks)

Intentional community is awareness of costs we bring to communities

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No one on any social media platform has a right to an account

It costs every social media platform to host a user and their content

But with centralized social media, the platform eats costs (with ads, selling your data to third parties, etc)

With decentralized social media like Mastadon, your community on your instance may donate to maintain the instance (thanks to those who do!) — if donations are short of costs, admins/mods pay

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Mastadon being decentalized means instance admins and moderators bear financial and labor burden of hosting, maintaining, moderation (not Mastadon)

Like you pay for growing phone storage space, admins/mods of instances cover cost increases with each new member’s presence (like Discord)

The cost burden is not fixed, and can be a lot for big and small communities depending on member size, community engagement, if instance owners can afford costs (even if you donate)

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If the ratio of members to admins/mods exceeds a certain threshold (and especially if members post a lot and/or generate a lot of moderation reports) it can take more money, time and labor to maintain and moderate an instance than you may imagine

This is especially the case for members violating rules and not being intentionally mindful of the community costs of their presence and violations

What does this look like in action? Great question, thank you for asking

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This is why it’s vital that instances (especially big ones or even small ones with very active members who post a lot) have solid admins and mods willing to upkeep maintenance:

instance upgrades, financial updates and reports, moderation tools, increasingly more difficult new member analysis in the age of AI and increasing scams/bad actors (and bad actors attacking marginalized communities, which alone is a huge burden for smaller instances), and more

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