Ada :v_trans: :v_pan:​ on Nostr: While Fedi's hidden rules usually have good intentions at heart, they are ...

While Fedi's hidden rules usually have good intentions at heart, they are fundamentally exclusionary in practise and stagnates the platform's growth.

Examples:<li>Content warnings are subjective and will never be consistently used. Yet, we shame anyone who don't use them in a way that fits an individual world-view.</li><li>Hashtags, both in number, usage and even positioning within a post, gets frequently called out. Even though, we actively push new users to utilize them.</li><li>Pins are great for holding onto posts that mean something to you, but awful when they're used as a mile long corporate ToS that you must fine-read and agree to, before interacting with the person.</li>

Many of these can be summarized as "I don't like the way you expressed yourself" but instead of just saying that, it's framed as: "you are a bad person for not thinking and expressing yourself like me"

These are opinions, **not** rules required for a community to function, or guidelines upon which moderators act on in order to prevent abuse.