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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 ?

#mastodon #pixelfed #lemmy #fediverse

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah I am thinking about how a implementation for a single acc for the whole fediverse could work.

Maybe a service with just handles authentication of users and gives the result to mastodon, pixelfed etc.

Like the login with google on websites.

Maybe that could be an application for block chain. The ledger has a the usernames and keys that you need to verify with you privat key.

So you log into mastodon with uid and privat key. Mastodon looks into the blockchain ledger and validates from there. If is is valid, you are loged in.