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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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[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's not an issue. As long as .social is able to maintain the load.

The good thing about decentralization is that at any moment anyone could open a new instance and it would work perfectly fine. It does not matter if one instance have more or less users.

If it lowers the entry barrier it is welcome. It should not matter at all.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

It is an issue if .social ever decides to "Be evil", and utilized their outsized influence over the rest of the 'verse.

Edit: The concept is known as "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish".

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

The thing about the fediverse is that it's incredibly easy to make an instance and they are all compatible. So if any instance becomes evil people just have to seamlessly move away.

It's not like twitter where if the owner become evil there's nothing to do. Here you just move instance and be done with it, still the same platform, still the same users.