People on Twitter are using the shutting down of the mastodon.lol instance, to mean that Mastodon “is not a viable model”. Hard disagree.
A strength of Mastodon is that if one instance is shutting, you can easily move to another. It’s quite literally a strength of decentralised systems in action.
@gamingonlinux yup. the one thing mastodon can produce are instances so big that they become almost impossible to defederate from without severely affecting the network overall.
however, in a centralised network, there is, by design, only the too-big-to-fail instance, and nothing else.
classic case of seeing an unfortunate effect of a better model and using to declare the better model unviable, when the worse model is one entire adverse effect in comparison.
Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮
raphael