CiaraEvery time a newcomer posts an introduction and somebody tells them they shouldn’t have joined Mastodon.social and need to move to a different server, an angel loses their wings.
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Ben S.@johnlorimer @CiaraNi for me the big issue is that it creates confusion - lots of people don't understand that the instance and the platform are even two different things.
Having somewhere between 25 and 50 percent of the entire platform's active users on only one instance really runs counter to the idea of federation, and gives a lot of people a highly skewed impression of what the platform as a whole is like.
@johnlorimer @HunterZ It is such a pity that happened and still happens. I wish the gatekeepers could just give a superior sigh and scroll by, without feeling the need to hop in and take newcomers to task.
@johnlorimer @HunterZ I still see it happening often enough that I've noticed it. Perhaps it happened more before, I don't know.