If they’re motivated, tooled up, and plugged into communities of support fediverse server teams can provide context-sensitive, high-touch local moderation for their members—while also connecting to a broad landscape of other well-governed servers. But can new fediverse members find them?
What even are these systems in which we live and work and—stripping away the ideologies of what corporations or technologies cannot possibly be expected to do—how should they function?
It's hard to get settled into the fediverse for a set of distinct but interlocking reasons, starting with "How do I pick a server?"
One of the things required for doing good work is stability, of even the most provisional kind. Right now, I'm working from a one-legged stool; it needs more legs.