Starting with the posted link and in more recent discussions of Standardising on ActivityPub Groups I have been advocating for some time to make “Community” a native concept of the Fediverse. Something that better represents communities in the real world: groups and individuals with intricate social relationships between them.
Why?
The following toot by @cicatriz_jdr provides one reason:
“”… and these ‘instances’ are all on separate servers, so it’s totally decentralized. but posts on one instance ‘federate’ with other instances, except when they don’t, which basically half the time. now here’s where it gets tricky…“”
And the follow-up by @throwawaygiraffoid is more hilarious even:
“THERAPIST: And those ““instances”” are they ““federating”” with us right now?”
With a community-native fedi you can avoid talking on the INFRASTRUCTURE level…
Maybe people I hang out with are different. Climate scientists and especially female scientists get a lot of hate. People I know tend to be fed up with the terrible atmosphere and harassment, but they are locked in.
The “moderation” part is a different aspect to the story, an important part that you can delve into afterwards. In your Peopleverse should be the people that you’d like to interact with, that add value to your life. And you should be able to have proper control on that. @deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml wrote a great article that highlights some interesting ways that might look like: Towards a Greater Federated Architecture. I wrote about Federated Moderation: Towards Delegated Moderation before, which is on similar lines and about making moderation more of a 1st-class citizen of fediverse capabilities than it is now.