hypothesis: if too many early users sign up on mastodon.social instead of other instances, federation will end up becoming a second-class feature. (imagine what email today would look like if gmail had existed in the 90s.)
other instances need to be able to compete with mastodon.social for growth, or https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/177 should be implemented.
@bcrypt Not everyone—myself included—has the tech skills to spin up a Mastodon instance. I'm on here because it's where everyone else is. I could create my own, but who'd prefer me over the main one? Probably just my friends. It's a choice between basically another Slack channel, and an actual community.
I see the ability to create separate instances as a useful feature for people who aren't being served by mastodon.social, but I don't feel like the main instance is suppressing anything else.
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