yan 🐇Apr 4, 2017

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.

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@bcrypt And people should consider whether any alt accounts might be a better fit for more specialized instances. mastodon.social feels a little like a keybase.io for identity verification for people who came from the bird site.
Apr 4, 2017 at 5:20pmWeb