Obviously everyone's worried about instances disappearing and losing accounts and such.
The council of admins idea would also help there...provide admin resilience, not just diversity.
So, council of n exists. Continually changing by one member each day who vote on community stuff.
Original admin (sadly) loses life, but community can keep going because the council is taking care of things.
Of course, without original admin, bills won't be paid, no physical access to HW, etc..
cont.
@orielle Yes, we've been discussing this. Worst case scenario, your instance implodes and you migrate to another instance, start over with same nick and emoji
@futuretro Yeah, so that's cool, and is doable now, but you obviously lose your community.
Obviously I'm envisaging a situation where the community is vital in itself...
I certainly feel that way, and I don't really know my community yet, but it seems to make a difference, because on twitter, family and friends were there and frankly I never felt so alone and so didn't tweet and felt like I was just talking to myself...
@orielle The vision we have is for Mastodon to take on individual branding/interest groups.
@orielle Hit the nail on the spot!
I'm excited to see the community grow.
For the moment, just enjoy the ride :pineapple:
@futuretro Yeah, seems like that's the way things will go, but these things have to be organic. At best, there can be a declaration of a starting point for the community...
People change, so communities change, and that means the community itself has to be flexible. Single admin set-ups can be a dictatorship. Their time and effort, so their rules, but I suspect those kind of places will always feel slightly limiting. I'd prefer a community that allows itself to evolve...