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Your thoughts on the concentration of users around big and flagship instances ? (self.fediverse)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by anticurrent to c/[email protected]
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Mastodon has seen a renewed interest these last few days, but when you look at the statistics mastodon.social siphons the biggest part of the pie, it sees a few thousands new sign-ups a day, while medium sized instance and smaller ones only get a few, sometimes just single digits increase.

This has been exacerbated since mastodon changed its UI both on web and mobile apps, to make the flagship instance the default one for sign-up in an effort to lower the entry barrier, which on the same time is leading to unhealthy concentration, on a platform that advocates for decentralization through federation.

Do you think this is the way forward on the fediverse ?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The problem isn't centralization, but the concept of a "generalist" instance. Instances should be more focused in concept and scope, and usable locally without feeling the need to scroll all.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I kind of disagree. In the sense that people have multiple interests and identities.

If you are a french person who likes anime and technology. Where so you sign up, to the French instance, the anime one, the one focused on technology? You have to make and maintain one account for every interest you have?

I think instances should be bland an irrelevant. Like email addresses. They should say nothing about the users of that instance. Imho, the goal should be that people just sign in in the most convenient instance and should not have to think again in which instance they are.