There are dozens of different server types on here, not just Mastodon servers. When you talk about this place, it's not enough to call it "Mastodon", because it's more than just that.
That's why people call this place "The Fediverse", because that name covers all server types. :fediverse:
I strongly suspect social critical mass is not a relative thing. #Federation very likely has a buffering effect, to be sure, but once you get past a million or so users & assuming sufficient diversity, you probably have MORE than enough critical mass to sustain a social media network.
So the whole 'is the #Fediverse real?' game media is playing isn't about that, it's about who "wins" in some imaginary contest.
Rolling your eyes at this is mostly a demonstration of Not Getting It™ when it comes to other people's concerns on #federation and #mastodon.
Does it mean that they can't be fixed? No.
Does it mean that their risk model may be flawed? Sure.
But saying "what's so difficult, this can happen elsewhere" or "you can just move instances" is missing a Very Big Point™ and just causing frustration for everyone.
And now, #Mastodon instance admins are blocking mastodon.social that serves as an important entry point to the #fediverse, killing Mastodon instead of fighting the spam accounts.
Sto provando phanpy.social un frontend alternativo per mastodon e, nonostante sia ancora acerbo (a me ad esempio non funziona il pulsante per scrivere un nuovo post) sembra davvero promettente!
3 cose saltano subito all'occhio rispetto all'interfaccia ufficiale:
le risposte ad albero sui threads permettono una visione immediata di come si è sviluppata la discussione (fig. 1)
i boosts non vengono mischiati ai toots, ma ogni tanto vengono raggruppati nel feed in dei carousel (fig. 2)
è possibile sfogliare le timeline locali di altre istanze e metterle nei preferiti per tornarci facilmente
Do you like the idea of a free, decentralized social media? Then make the move today. Simply use the built in migration feature and move from mastodon.social to one of the smaller servers.
You can choose a server that has a theme that fits your posting habits, a server local to where you live or a generalist server in your language.
This person is not a bad person but an uneducated one. Stating how #federation has failed and calling the other instances irrelevant #Mastodon maybe you guys can provide some helpful responses that I can pass along. I’m too blinded by frustration #fediverse
I know the #Bluesky /AT devs & Dorsey (mostly Dorsey) keep saying that “Bluesky” is essentially a proof of concept and will (if all works according to plan) cease to exist once #federation blossoms.
But…
I don’t believe that. I feel the OG server & native clients will be cemented and always be somewhat of a default.
@atomicpoet A few thoughts from a non-technical wonderer:
Does the announced profound need of recoding #Twitter imply it's going to apply and absorb AT-protocol, to federate first with #Bluesky and perhaps within itself too – on multiple server centers.
Who governs the AT-protocol, if it's not open-sourced (like #ActivityPub'ed #Fediverse )? Who owns it? Who's going to buy the core infra of such walled gardened #federation? 🤔
Woran liegt es, dass pixelfed.social und pixel.tchncs.de nicht richtig förderieren, ist das so gewollt? Ein Bild aus meinem pixel.tchncs Account, eins aus meinem pixelfed.social Account, herhalten muß @ho1ger. Auf einem sehe ich die Bilder, auf dem anderen nicht...
We shouldn't just have silencing, blocking and other #moderationtechniques - we also need concepts of reasoning, warnings and reprieve in #ActivityPub. These should be created as part of the #moderation process and published to explain a decision, both to the instance members and other instances' moderators.
#QuotePosts, text-based #search --- ouch. It will be important to see how these are implemented, but it feels like a climbdown. A move toward attention-grabbing broadcasting, away from attention-giving dialogue.
Whatever happened to the slow, considered, anti-viral ethos of classical #MastodonCulture? Awaiting implementation details, but I am sceptical.
And an #onboarding process that sends everyone to one mega instance seems to be the opposite of #federation building.
“We believe it’s important for Mastodon to be good as a product on its own merits, and not just because of its ideology. If we only attract people who already care about decentralization, our ability to make decentralization mainstream becomes that much harder. Making the onboarding process as easy as possible helps new users get past the sign-up process and more quickly engage with others.”
https://mastodon.social being down, presumably because they're testing some of their latest features they're working on, and in the process kicking 1 million out of the 11.8 million people* (thanks @nemobis for the correction) from the fediverse is a good reminder to check out other Mastodon instances, or even other fediverse services and platforms.
I'm hosting my own Git instance for a while now (Gitea) and I'm still not sure if I want to have it as my default/main instance or stick with GitHub as my main.
What would you do?
I'm also very curious what self-hosted instances you guys use.