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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I hope people spread out, but I also hope that tools for viewing the fediverse keep being developed so people don't feel so fragmented and feel pressured to join big instances.

Like say each instance had a similarly named community, and you could browse the community locally and across all other instance communities with the same name. Much like there is a local and all button at the top.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

you could browse the community locally and across all other instance communities with the same name.

Lemmy.ml and lemmy.world political communities wouldn't probably mix well together. There's a reason different versions of communities exist. If they are two similar, they should consolidate on one community.