Bastian AllgeierThe federated approach to Mastodon keeps me excited. It's still really unclear how it works from the outside. though. I feel it's a packaging problem. There needs to be more marketing and fluffiness about it. Why would I want to start my own instance? Where are the benefits? How do I move my content over? Can I still stay friends with the people here at mastodon.social? Etc. In the end it needs to be a simple one-click decision. It needs to feel light and enjoyable.
David Gravanita@bastianallgeier Devil's Advocate: Federation seems like a terrific idea in practice, yet, it makes the product fundamentally more complicated to the user, limiting its' potential (a social network is only as good as the people on it); it makes the user experience differ at what seems (from the user perspective) to be random behaviour (why am I not seeing your toots on my timeline?); it contributes to the formation of natural monopolies, since few will have their toots displayed federation-wide.