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Glyphglyph@mastodon.social
Sep 25, 2026, 2:19 AM
@eevee (cue a lengthy complaint about how that's just, like, your opinion, and doesn't everyone have the RIGHT to be in the space, it's not like I BROKE any RULES, etc etc etc. and yeah the immune system of the space needs to have a way to recognize this)
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eevee 🦊eevee
Sep 25, 2026, 2:20 AM
@glyph rule zero: don't make me moderate you
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JPdaedalus@eigenmagic.net
Sep 25, 2026, 2:35 AM
@eevee @glyph this is why eigenmagic has a "Don't annoy the Tyrant" rule.
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Glyphglyph@mastodon.social
Sep 25, 2026, 2:35 AM
@daedalus @eevee locally this can work okay but joking aside, tyrrany is actually a pretty bad form of governance (and this has revealed itself in extremely practical and serious ways in open source projects)
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JPdaedalus@eigenmagic.net
Sep 25, 2026, 2:45 AM
@glyph @eevee yes, I agree. It is tongue-in-cheek, both a nod to Terry Pratchett and an explicit reminder that this instance isn't a democracy rather than pretending it is, as an attempt to inoculate against the thinking that leads to those bad forms of governance.
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760ceb3b9c0ba4872cadf3ce35a7a494760ceb3b9c0ba4872cadf3ce35a7a4@wetdry.world
Sep 25, 2026, 2:47 AM
@glyph @daedalus @eevee re: open source, i was kind of surprised to learn that pro-"benevolent dictator for life" stuff is still being seriously espoused today. i just assumed that people had realized why Having A Guy does not solve the whole governance thing ( and may in fact be quite problematic!) and re moderation, like sure "dont make me moderate you"/"dont be a dick" is a good starting point but if "dont be a dick" was easy to derive for the purpose of determining what actionable steps to take on the scale of a community of hundreds or thousands , we wouldn't have any work to do, right? but clearly (gestures vaguely at everything) we do
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