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I think that would make sense for how I approach fedi as well. Because people see me as being vocal to the point of excess about like issues fedi has, and think I'm doing too much meta/drama posting, but for me it's what comes naturally to me and makes the most sense to me. I can't be in any network or any community and just accept the bad things for how they are.

I heard once that its an autism thing to be incapable of *not* calling out injustice or unethical things and trying to address them because it's what makes the most sense rather than swallowing your emotions

And this is often what gets us in trouble at jobs and makes moving up hard, because we can't stay in line, at least not without it being extremely painful.

I can't blame certain admins for going from "fun pleroma instance" to "we need to be strict in order to maintain federation" but: consider that forcing your users to be inauthentic for the sake of Mastodon admins who cancel you in bad faith, is not healthy for your space to grow into itself.

You'll be held to higher and higher standards and still end up blackmailed by those you're trying to please, and you'll lose good users.

Disqordia went through this too, I once tried to be the Good Admin™, keeping up a perfect instance block list, pulling users aside to ask them not to do certain things, and it really didn't make Disq any better or prevent anyone from disliking us because they don't actually care that we block who we're "supposed to" or take the actions they want us to.

Dont fall for it. Just be yourself and let your users be themselves. Even when there's issues. Even when there's arguments.

You can disagree with the fediblock protest, but it objectively did work to get the heat off of jorts.horse, who were being targeted for two easily ignorable joke posts on fediblock.

Now the anger is dispersed among all of us who showed solidarity for them and they are less targeted.

You may not understand or agree, but you can't deny the results. If solidarity efforts piss you off, that's a personal problem you should deal with.