@hankg @cfiesler Very much agree. Once more valuable communities are established and some medium sized instances gain new members migrating from birdsite, it will take the load off the big instance and start to help show folks that once they slow down, consider our conditioning, make some time to prune a followership, the re-decentralization into a network of networks isn’t exactly the dead-end as portrayed. Improved portability support across instances could also reduce barriers to entry.

@BrentToderian It seems Mastodon is very reliant on hashtags to make search work. But that means it is very encouraged to use them. As for finding followers, Trunk directory which lists people by topic as a starting point. https://communitywiki.org/trunk

@josh Fascinating. Of course, I hadn't really fully appreciated that element.

@[email protected] intriguing

@paco Yep, definitely looking into mastodon.host