Annika BackstromJul 1, 2023
Welcome to the Fediverse! Get the fuck off mastodon.social as soon as possible
Show threadjamesJul 1, 2023
@annika why? Because a few service hiccups?
Show threadAnnika Backstrom
@james Because huge servers (10K+ accounts) are bad for the overall health of a distributed network, especially when they have open registration
Jul 1, 2023 at 11:37pmWeb
Show threadJon (now at neuromatch.social)Jul 1, 2023

@annika 💯

And @james I was just responding to a similar question at https://infosec.exchange/@thenexusofprivacy/110641469669726099

The Nexus of Privacy (@[email protected])

@[email protected] Great question. A rew reasons: - mastodon.social's so big that the Local and Federated timelines aren't very useful. - smaller instances (even if they're not special-interest focused) are more likely to have a good community. - many other instances have "silenced" mastodon.social (because of its long history of moderation issues -- or just because of the volume), so people on other instances are less likely to connect with you. All that being said, I wasn't trying to say that mastodon.social was terrible - it's the advice that's horrible. It's just that for most people it's not the best place to start. @[email protected] @[email protected]

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Show threadjamesJul 1, 2023
@annika that’s fair.
Show threadenshittified catgirlJul 2, 2023
@james @annika a more forceful reason is it's easy for bad actors to join, so you're more likely to see unmoderated hate speech and spam, and less likely to see good posts because other servers tend to block it for the above hate speech and spam
Show threadScenarioJul 2, 2023
@neko @james @annika Meh. We could use some spicing up.