The continued growth of mastodon.social is putting the #Fediverse in danger (here's why: https://fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-idea-to-join-a-big-server/).
The quickest, easiest and most effective way to solve this would be if the official apps & website stopped promoting mastodon.social, and instead promoted a rotating selection from a pool of reliable servers with solid track records.
If you're comfortable using Github, please give thumbs up to all these:
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-android/issues/568
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/issues/1023
- https://github.com/mastodon/joinmastodon/issues/1052
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services Done
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services I am on mastodon.online, while it it is not mastodon.social it is still run by the same people so perhaps this needs to made more clear to people.
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services "too big to defederate" is a good property for someone who doesn't want to lose all of my history of existence (I have dissociative amnesia) to some stupid high school drama level quibble.
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services they are also doing strange things, like you cant say somebody is racist. So a bit right wing.
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services the irony: it is on GitHub which shared the demise of getting too big and central for something decentralized
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It is too big to moderate well. Just 2 days ago, I warned someone not to go there.
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I wandered over here because the categorical server I joined was taken over by people with an agenda, and firm opinions on how everyone else should use the Fediverse. Also rude and threatening, and blocked this which had a half-dozen people I followed or vice versa.
Why did other people choose this server?
Encourage movement: promote specific interest groups.
We do need another photography server. Or three.
#tips #howto #hownotto #FailureModes #manners
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I added this comment to the third issue:
https://github.com/mastodon/joinmastodon/issues/1052#issuecomment-3513813128
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services all of this is a good reminder. I think maybe ideally mast.social could be a jumping off pad. maybe learn a few things and then move off. Something we haven't been able to do before because everything else locks you in. But I've been here, got a decent list of follows to read. I don't really need the firehose anymore.
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services When I started here, I looked at a page of servers and wound up choosing the big one. I'm a musician, a programmer, I create video games, and I rant about politics. None of the smaller servers with focuses had that combo. I wondered if talking about other things would be disapproved of. A large, nebulous server seemed right for me to start with.
Later, when I decided to make a private server, I kept the old m.s account to use in power failures. I post new releases on both servers. Although m.s is growing, perhaps a good number of accounts are similarly dormant until needed.
One way to ease entry might be to have a page where a new user checks off their interests, and the closest-fitting instances are offered. They needn't all be mastodon. Servers indicate areas of interest (and also if they welcome general/political/off-topic conversation).
Fwiw, I'm considering opening up my servers to the public next year, should anyone be interested in moderating. Every bit helps, I guess.
Fedi.Tips
