Elijah
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦@evalprime sigh. 🙄
Stuart (moved)The issue is those that want an easy introduction to Mastodon are the least likely to hazard a migration to another server later. Hence we are looking at creating a monster instance that dominates the Fediverse.
Random allocation to, say, one of 10 trusted instances would, imho, make better sense.
@evalprime @stuart as long as some of them are run by entities outside of Mastodon-the-company's control
@stuart @evalprime oh I totally agree here! really disappointed in that move by Gargron.
Not to mention that a monster instance moves us towards a single point of failure.
I would have hoped Eugen would have trusted others to offer at least an equivalent service and grow them as equals. I worry that out of the blue annoucements invites unhelpful criticism and division. Perhaps as Mastodon matures a move to a more consensual approach would avoid this.
@stuart @evalprime one can only hope. I strongly agree with your worry about single point of failure. I lived through exactly that with StatusNet, a decade ago, when the biggest instance, identi.ca, got redeployed as an incompatible service.
It ripped the beating heart from the then-"StatusNet-verse." Set us all back good half-decade if not more.
Steve E