As I posted recently, the continuned growth of mastodon.social is putting the #Fediverse in danger (here's why: fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-ide…).
The quickest, easiest and most effective way to solve this would be if the official apps stopped promoting mastodon.social, and instead promoted a rotating selection from a pool of reliable servers with solid track records.
If you're comfortable using Github, please give thumbs up to both these issues:
- github.com/mastodon/mastodon-a…
- github.com/mastodon/mastodon-i…
[BUG] App onboarding is directing new users to join mastodon.social by default
Is there an existing issue for this? I have searched the existing issues Current Behavior With the current setup, the app strongly implies users should just join mastodon.social, with a harder-to-r...FediVideos (GitHub)
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Fedi.Tips 🎄
in reply to Fedi.Tips 🎄 • • •p.s. To avoid repetition of replies:
-If people forget name of server they signed up on, it's written on the email they received when they signed up.
-Mastodon.social is in no way more reliable or easier than other servers with similar or better track records.
-If Mastodon gGmbH does not trust anyone else to run a server properly, why should anyone else trust Mastodon gGmbH to run a server properly? "Trust me, but I won't trust you" is a terrible argument in a collaborative project.
Luigi.exe (Dragonheart System)
in reply to Fedi.Tips 🎄 • • •Glowing Cat of the Nuclear Wastelands
in reply to Luigi.exe (Dragonheart System) • • •@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
Luigi.exe (Dragonheart System)
in reply to Glowing Cat of the Nuclear Wastelands • • •@deathkitten
Paradoxically, by letting the instance they own balloon in size, they have to pour more and more resources into maintaining it.
So regardless, they have to spend more resources, and they chose to spend resources that's leading to the Fediverse being more centralized.
Fedi.Tips 🎄
in reply to Luigi.exe (Dragonheart System) • • •@Eeveecraft @deathkitten
Yup, it is concerning if some of the donations and grants given to Mastodon gGmbH are spent on centralising the Fediverse by funding mastodon.social.
Fedi.Tips 🎄
in reply to Luigi.exe (Dragonheart System) • • •@Eeveecraft
I am not one of the people who attacks Eugen personally, he's done more than anyone to popularise the Fediverse, we owe him. I don't agree with people who attack him.
But he doesn't really respond to criticism, and for some reason none of the others at Mastodon gGmbH respond about this issue either.
The only action Masto gGmbH has taken in response to my posts about this is banning me from trending on mastodon.social (that's why FediTips posts don't ever trend there any more).
Still Nmyownworld
in reply to Fedi.Tips 🎄 • • •Sensitive content
Anson
in reply to Still Nmyownworld • • •Fedi.Tips 🎄
in reply to Anson • • •@ansonkennedy
If you just want one suggestion a very similar and equally reliable alternative large alternative would be mas.to
If you want a selection of good medium-sized servers to choose from, you can find some at fedi.garden all of which are human-curated and have to be compatible with certain requirements listed at fedi.garden/about-this-site/
Fedi.Garden
fedi.gardenlxskllr
in reply to Fedi.Tips 🎄 • • •@ansonkennedy
What's your opinion of .world? I picked this cause someone I was interested in was here, but didn't give it any thought. It's absolutely default, and reliable. The "default" is bad cause it's only 500 character toot limit, but otherwise, it works well.
Mathias
in reply to lxskllr • • •One of the (many) reasons I'm on @sharkey.world and not @mastodon.world. My char limit is 5432. Everything else is like a pretty version of Mastodon, but with extra functionality.
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services @ansonkennedy@mastodon.social