Mastodon improving the onboard experience is great. The wannabe fedi-police will be out in force against a default instance i’ve no doubt and I’ve already seen numerous complaints about it.
It’s not “growth for the sake of growth” or against the idea of decentralisation. It’s just a small basic change to improve the flow for new people to get people started. Good stuff.
Also quote toots coming, yay!
@gamingonlinux The issue I see with auto-signups to the biggest instance isn't with decentralization directly, but with the moderation issues that instance has been having since long before now.
I've heard of several instances taking the nuclear option of defederating M.S due to harassment of their users and the lack of moderating them on M.S's behalf. If their moderation was lacking then, encouraging rapid growth of their population won't improve it.
Hey folks, based on some moderation reports that suggested mastodon.social was basically completely unmoderated and the volume of really awful accounts we've seen from there I defederated the instance yesterday. Since then folks pointed out that several RPG companies or significant folks are there, so I've re-federated with them. I don't think there's an easy answer here, but I'm going to try to figure out how to handle a large instance with some important accounts but a lot of awful ones too.
Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮
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