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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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[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 days ago

"moving servers" means what exactly? Changing your "home" instance? I assume you can still see content from other instances you're federated with, right? Otherwise what's the point

[-] fushuan@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Imagine that the main instance starts to blocklist words and censor content. Or ads. Having a way to move all your history, follower and follow list would be great so deter such issues since users can abandon your server quickly and you would just lose the userbase you were trying to monetise.

Imagine I decide to invest in a private server and want to create my own instances and move my Lemmy and Mastodon accounts there to have better control of what happens.

Having to resubscribe to everything would suck and specially in mastodon, having to generate a new userbase from zero would just deter users from such things.

Another example, suddenly the Mali govt decides to close lemmy.ml, that would suck. Having a way to changing the instance would be just great.

[-] Lumidaub@feddit.org 5 points 3 days ago

You know how people often assume someone is trolling, simply because their account is new?

Another reason would be to not have a billion dead accounts on servers.

this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2025
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