As you may know, I moved to using my blahaj.zone account almost exclusively, as I kinda disliked the vibe I was getting from .world. At the same time, I also want to gage the feelings people have about the migration. Will you continue to use 196 on lemmy.world? Are you happy with the change? I want to hear from you:
Aw! These kind of comments make it all worth it!
In case you’re curious, the way I usually go about things, is that I want my actions to signal that I want my users to not only feel protected by me (and the other instance admins) but also protected from me. It’s why I always default to the strongest copyleft licenses for my work, and why I keep asking peeps what they think about potential decisions.
I feel a lot of the time people get in the mindset that taking top-down decisions “for the good of the community” cuts away a lot of the red tape and keeps things moving quickly. This is especially true in auth-left instances. And while that can be quite true when one is making decisions that happen to agree with their communities, eventually, everyone makes one that doesn’t. The problem when you’re used to taking decisions top down because “you know better”, you start seeing any dissent as haters or reactionaries (depending on your perspective), and by the time one realizes that,no, actually this is a popular sentiment, you have a shitstorm on your hands.