Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮Feb 12, 2023

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.

Show threadLiam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮Feb 12, 2023
It is also however a weakness in action, as any can shut down. However, that same thing is true of basically any service online ever - happens to online games plenty, they shut and people are locked out (which is why I always argue for being able to host your own servers…).
Show threadLiam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮Feb 12, 2023
Oh your email provider “totallysecuremeails124” is closing. Clearly email is not a viable model. Oh wait.
Show threadGrathFeb 12, 2023
@gamingonlinux So in a decade, there'll be a Google mastodon instance that's got a dominant userbase and defederates most other instances, effectively centralizing the service? 😜
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@Grath

@gamingonlinux

If ppl want fediverse to actually work, no instances over 1k ppl (I'd argue 100 but let's say 1k for argument ), way more development on lightweight easy to self host tools (should run a raspberry Pi .. example instead of Mastodon use pleroma or it's forks or gotosocial), and way better instructions for spinning things up on free tier VPS providers etc.
Feb 15, 2023 at 9:54pmWeb