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Your thoughts on the concentration of users around big and flagship instances ? (sh.itjust.works)
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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean do smaller instances want to be larger? That means more resources. I mean as long as they are accepting signups presumably but they might not be ready for 1000 in a day. For myself I sorta avoided the largest options and then looked at what the next few options put in their about and faq. Until there is a pretty good migration tool though Im not going to get to attached to my user.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If an instance doesn't want to grow they turn off new sign-ups, some growth might help instances stay afloat, as not only it might help with more donations, but also signal to the maintainers that there is appreciation for their work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

yeah im more thinking some may be willing to do like a hundred and then sign up but getting like 1000 in an hour or something might be to much. but I mean if my instance said hey they need to reduce or something I would be fine to switch.