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 threadtheolagendijkApr 25, 2017
@hisham_hm I wish I could acquire a spot on mastodon.social. I have no clue on how to determine the trust worthiness of the other Mastodon instances. I just chose an instance with good stats ( scores, users, uptime, etc... ) and a funny name.
Show threadHisham
@theolagendijk yeah, I think one way to address this is to add more information about instances and help people make informed decisions. But it's also a UI problem; it can't be too complicated (people won't bother making a deep research about instances).
Apr 25, 2017 at 8:11pmTusky