So the question: how to make hubs that are/have

* reliable
* trustworthy
* non-exploitative of users
* non-authoritarian (wrt censorship)
* proxy-able
* graceful failover
* graceful obsolescence
* potentially anonymous
* potentially transient

I think in the absence of these considerations, mastodon networks will, as others like @bcrypt have pointed out, tend to consolidate around a few large instances that will have too much trust & reliability burden placed on them.

Why do people have that green looking check mark in their username? :white_check_mark:

When many of us joined, they didn't realize this was a federated network and that you could have accounts on different nodes. It got confusing quickly.

#feditip: Until we've got a better system, adding white_check_mark emoji to your name is a convention to tell others which account is primary.

I've attached an example:
https://mastodon.social/media/ZWtVoiADjWhysIPCcyk