So the chapo chat admins and the admins of whoever is federated with this place will be on equal footing with no oversight
Sort-of. If @Beatnik wanted to (for example) allow thedota.win (we all know what this means, right?) chud posts to be seen by C.C users, he's free to do that without anyone's dissenting opinion. [But this would lead to a revolt around here, obviously or a bunch of POST HOG CHUDS/kerry spam?] The beauty/strength of the Federiverse software (Lemmy, Mastodon, forgetting the Facebook clone) is that if people do not like this decision, they can say "fuck you Spez, Beatnik" and spin up their own server (provided they cover the electricity/bandwidth costs) with the Federiverse software (Lemmy, Mastodon, et. al.) and make their own Casino instance with Blackjack and Hookers! with content they want to see.
The weakness though: You'd have to make another account on that new server and forget your old one because unless Beatnik and crew wanted to allow you to take your data with you (which should be possible, Beatnik with the ping: Answer this for me, plz?) you'd not be able to take that with you if they don't allow it.
But that's also a strength: At any time if you yourself want to keep all your (and thereby others if you allow registration) data to yourself, you're able to spin-up and ask to be seen/cross-posted to other instances while maintaining your own server/database. But at the same time you can see other peoples login information/data so it's a matter of trust on their part on if they want to be hosted on your server/etc.
I should probably add (and not to put words in the admins mouth) that generally now a days passwords are encrypted and not in the clear. So admins can't see passwords, but that doesn't mean the software/database/etc. doesn't allow it. Best practices is that people can not see other peoples login information and the like for privacy/etc. reasons, but that doesn't mean it isn't possible.</paranoia mode off?>
From what I understand, it's this, but if the subreddit mods were the top of the hierarchy.
So the chapo chat admins and the admins of whoever is federated with this place will be on equal footing with no oversight
Sort-of. If @Beatnik wanted to (for example) allow thedota.win (we all know what this means, right?) chud posts to be seen by C.C users, he's free to do that without anyone's dissenting opinion. [But this would lead to a revolt around here, obviously or a bunch of POST HOG CHUDS/kerry spam?] The beauty/strength of the Federiverse software (Lemmy, Mastodon, forgetting the Facebook clone) is that if people do not like this decision, they can say "fuck you
Spez, Beatnik" and spin up their own server (provided they cover the electricity/bandwidth costs) with the Federiverse software (Lemmy, Mastodon, et. al.) and make their ownCasinoinstancewith Blackjack and Hookers!with content they want to see.The weakness though: You'd have to make another account on that new server and forget your old one because unless Beatnik and crew wanted to allow you to take your data with you (which should be possible, Beatnik with the ping: Answer this for me, plz?) you'd not be able to take that with you if they don't allow it.
But that's also a strength: At any time if you yourself want to keep all your (and thereby others if you allow registration) data to yourself, you're able to spin-up and ask to be seen/cross-posted to other instances while maintaining your own server/database. But at the same time you can see other peoples login information/data so it's a matter of trust on their part on if they want to be hosted on your server/etc.
@Beatnik
I should probably add (and not to put words in the admins mouth) that generally now a days passwords are encrypted and not in the clear. So admins can't see passwords, but that doesn't mean the software/database/etc. doesn't allow it. Best practices is that people can not see other peoples login information and the like for privacy/etc. reasons, but that doesn't mean it isn't possible.</paranoia mode off?>