HishamApr 25, 2017

As Mastodon grows, at some point there _will_ be a meltdown of some big instance into which tons of people put their trust and then the admin turns out not to be trustworthy (like the MtGox incident in Bitcoin). Even if it's a few hundred people affected, it will be major negative news.

People need to be educated about the role and power of instance admins.

Show threadDivanApr 25, 2017
@hisham_hm As soon as an admin loses interest it's goodbye instance. There could even be a situation where an instance falls out of date.
Show threadHishamApr 25, 2017
@Divan @TheKinrar That's a good point. One ranking criteria for instances could/should be the version of Mastodon software running. This is a good indicator if the instance admin is doing their homework wrt security updates.
Show threadHishamApr 25, 2017
@TheKinrar @Divan If this info isn't easy to obtain from /about maybe that's something we could request to be added. In that direction, it could show the git hash of the running copy, and that would also indicate if it's a release of vanilla Mastodon or a custom codebase.
Show threadTheKinrarApr 25, 2017
@hisham_hm @Divan yep it will, but in next release ;)
Show threadHishamApr 25, 2017
@TheKinrar @Divan oh, this feature is already in master??
Show threadTheKinrar

@hisham_hm @Divan don't know but I know this is planned

However yep, maybe not next release

Apr 25, 2017 at 8:02pmWeb