Fediverse server admins: have you considered putting a limit on the number of people that can join your instance?
If not, please do.
(This should really be a feature in fediverse servers like Mastodon, etc. “Max occupancy” or something with an auto-shutoff when it’s reached.)
Remember, small is beautiful ;)
If nothing else, I’m sure none of you want to become mini Zuckerbergs or Musks – eww – so let’s make sure we set the right incentives from the start.
@jucka It limits the influence of that one instance and its admins.
Consider an instance with hundreds of thousands of people on it: if they block an instance with ten people on it, they effectively cut off those ten people from hundreds of thousand of people. That’s a power imbalance.
Now consider that they end up with millions of people on it and the costs of running it skyrocket so they need more money and a venture capitalist comes knocking…
This is not the path towards decentralisation.
Aral Balkan
jucka