Aral BalkanApr 21, 2023

Dear @Gargron,

Please reevaluate your decision to incentivise centralisation on mastodon.social in the official app.

This is the sort of design a VC-funded startup would implement, not a non-profit acting in the interests of a healthy commons.

I’m sure you don’t want mastodon.social to become mini-Twitter and you don’t want to become mini-Musk.

That’s not how we win this.

More instances, not larger instances is the key.

https://mastodon.ar.al/@feditips@mstdn.social/110233282943673558

#decentralisation #fediverse #staySmall

Fedi.Tips (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image The official Mastodon app is doing something new which is potentially very dangerous to the existence of Mastodon and the Fediverse. The official Mastodon app now prompts users to join mastodon.social by default, when previously it prompted them to pick a server. If you're new this may sound harmless, but let me explain. The entire point of this place is to be a social network spread out on as many servers as possible (the reasons are here: https://fedi.tips/why-is-the-fediverse-on-so-many-separate-servers/). (1/6)

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Show threadSubhadeep Jasu
@aral @Gargron out scaling is better than up scaling. Putting pressure on a single instance defeats the point of fediverse. I can see this as good for ux but may be there is some other way.
Apr 21, 2023 at 11:20amMastodon for Android
Show threadbison ✅Apr 21, 2023
@SbdJazz @aral @Gargron ux is sadly what counts way more than technology or "decentralization" or whatever for the normal user https://mastodon.social/@bison/110236564643376704