What good is a Code of Conduct on a federated platform?
Jerks will just go to a different instance.
Is there a real value there?
@WomanCorn yes, absolutely! its about locus of control corresponding better to real-world conditions; you can't make people you dont like stop existing, but you CAN limit your exposure to them. booting people you dont like off your instance and managing federation is a good way of doing this IMO. do you not think so?
@WomanCorn yeah, this very much depends on:
1. the degree to which one uses local vs federated TL
2. the federation policy of the instance
both of which we've barely begun figuring out, admittedly, but i imagine that these will become more important over time as we encounter moderation incidents and preferences emerge subsequently
@pee_zombie if you de-federate other instances, well, that's a very coarse filter.
If I block or unfollow people that's fine, but the instance CoC doesn't really come into it.
@WomanCorn instance CoC is also a signal to OTHER instance admins what sort of content they can expect to see from here; for ex, say we were explicitly a free-speech-maximalist instance, certain speech-conservative instances might choose to defederate from us proactively
@pee_zombie oh yes.
I have a pinned <what to expect from this account> warning.
(My favorite one is the one that says "I will not send you angry bees in the mail."
Ah, here it is: https://theungrumpablegrinch.tumblr.com/coc )
@pee_zombie I saw a conversation where people were talking about what instance is best* and mentioning a specific instance having a great Code of Conduct and I was very confused.
It's _nice_ that most people on Schelling are part of the same social circle, but I follow enough off-instance people that the Schelling CoC doesn't really have much to do with what I see.
* for $minority $activity, of course.