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So this is one thing that I don't understand: > No matter which node [...] you get roughly the same experience. How do you mean this? Besides HN, I'm on some

by creer 3y ago

So this is one thing that I don't understand: > No matter which node [...] you get roughly the same experience. How do you mean this? Besides HN, I'm on some big guys, a few discords, and some private groups. Some of the big guys delegate moderation to private participants in each sub-forum - of course. NO TWO of these have the same rules. Not even close. Some have fundamentally different basic rules of conduct. Many of the moderators enthusiastically want to block "the bad guys" but they mostly agree to each other's label on that in spite of their rules being all different. Basically if someone was lynched by some other group, that's good enough for them. I'm willing to be amazed that it works but for now I do not believe that two of these systems actually will agree long term to use the other guy's forum rules.

calamari4065 3y ago
When you move an account between servers, you also move your following list. Your new account follows all the same accounts and your home timeline is identical between accounts. Of course the local and federated feeds are different, but those are local to the server and will always be unique. What you're describing is drama, which is pretty easy to ignore. My previous server got wrapped up in some ridiculously inane large-scale drama that I couldn't avoid. So I started my own server and moved everything over. I still see all the same posts from the same people and they still see mine. It's all exactly the same except for the local and federated feeds.
- creer 3y ago
  As I read you, when you switch server, you still see your favorite people's own independent writings (the kind of thing HN posts link to). And perhaps their own local responses? And you give up the discussion threads or groups that are between the members of this or that server and moderated by the corresponding server people? These discussions are just among one server's members? Isn't that a rather small group?

by creer 3y ago

calamari4065 3y ago

When you move an account between servers, you also move your following list. Your new account follows all the same accounts and your home timeline is identical between accounts. Of course the local and federated feeds are different, but those are local to the server and will always be unique. What you're describing is drama, which is pretty easy to ignore. My previous server got wrapped up in some ridiculously inane large-scale drama that I couldn't avoid. So I started my own server and moved everything over. I still see all the same posts from the same people and they still see mine. It's all exactly the same except for the local and federated feeds.

creer 3y ago
As I read you, when you switch server, you still see your favorite people's own independent writings (the kind of thing HN posts link to). And perhaps their own local responses? And you give up the discussion threads or groups that are between the members of this or that server and moderated by the corresponding server people? These discussions are just among one server's members? Isn't that a rather small group?