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FediTips has moved!Feb 1, 2023

Apparently JoinMastodon.org was recently attacked by a DDoS.

The Fediverse needs more than just JoinMastodon to help new people find servers. It's a single point of failure that could be crashed or bought out.

I've started an independent curated server guide at https://fedi.garden and would encourage others to create curated onboarding sites too.

If you run a Fedi instance (Masto or not) that complies with the Mastodon Covenant (https://joinmastodon.org/covenant) please get in touch.

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Patrick Mevzek

@feditips DNS `SRV` records could be useful. Each existing instance could publish itself + a few others (that it already exchanges with), so that querying any instance DNS records gives a first batch of possible servers, and then one can query those for more and so on. A web page (or multiple ones) can be build on top of this with regular pulling. This leverage the DNS as decentralized database.