Erp, think I need to back up. I'd kinda filed Deceptichum into their own category in my head, they're distinct enough that I don't really notice the instance when I come across their comments.

Still a yes from me, and I often agree with that person's POV (and sometimes I find it fruitlessly hostile, or etc.). Just acknowledging a big contradictory hole in my "quokk.au users never annoy me" statement.

That's so true.

I see it as a second layer of federation, so we're sort of extra-federating with certain instances, for some specific goals, and while I have some mixed feelings I broadly agree with the goals and I do think this is strictly better than somehow merging with them (actual centralization).

Primary benefits as I understand them (probably infinitely debatable, regarding how desirable or even accurate any of this is):

• makes it obvious which instances are likely to be good fits for me, should I not like the direction this one takes over time
• makes the admins of each instance less isolated, with all the support that entails (I think admins of internet communities have natural and very real pulls toward what I guess I'd call estrangement or developing unhealthy views toward their user bases or others)
• makes it harder for motivated bad actors to balkanize leftist lemmy instances and thereby keep leftist ideals like "mutual aid" and "sharing wealth" sounding like fringe ideas
• this last one is hard to phrase, but essentially moderation policies across the fediverse have different weights or impacts depending on the size of their user base (e.g. the atrocious moderation on .world impacts a lot more users than it would on a smaller instance) and this formalization of policy feels like a small way to improve the overall weight of my preferred style of moderation

Good bot.

Quokk.au only has one admin - Qk - and she's been active in our Matrix rooms for a while now and seems really nice! Their admin has agreed to adopt our existing governance processes and policies since we already have a lot of stuff in place. So nothing much will change for existing flotilla members really. Hopefully that will put your mind at ease.

The main difference in terms of governance is that now we have another experienced admin to bounce ideas off and exchange expertise with, and of course Quokk.au users will be able to propose policy changes and vote in exactly the same way as the rest of the flotilla members. But bearing in mind the relative size of our userbases, and also the fact they are pretty well aligned with us already, do you still have a strong concern about that aspect? Plus any flotilla user can initiate a "radical recall" of a mod or admin in the flotilla if they go off the rails.

Arrrrrr!

@oculi@anarchist.nexus Out of curiosity, why would you downvote on a comment like this? It will have no effect on the vote, additionally you are not even a dbzer0 user. Why do you even care?