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Clearly there are already multiple large instances in existence, so the situation is already fundamentally better than Twitter where there is only a single inst
by yogthos 6y ago
Clearly there are already multiple large instances in existence, so the situation is already fundamentally better than Twitter where there is only a single instance.
Furthermore, I think that small instances are just as important as the big ones. If a small group of people has a shared interest and they want to run an instance in a specific way that's possible to do with Mastodon.
There are tons of small Mastodon communities for all kinds of niche interests right now, and their users can make up their own rules for how they interact, what they allow, and so on. This is an incredibly important aspect of the federated model. There isn't one set of rules that applies to everybody the way there is with a centralized platform.
- Vinnl 6y agoYeah, I guess it's like email. Sure, it's not great that in practice there's only a small number of providers and that it's really hard/scary to run your own, but it's still lightyears better than it being a single company's proprietary messaging system.
- yogthos 6y agoWorth noting that running a Mastodon instance is vastly easier than setting up your own mail server. Digital Ocean even has it provisioned nowadays, so if you wanted to set one up for yourself and friends for example, it's mostly point and click.
- Vinnl 6y agoIt currently is, but I can imagine that changing if it were to be as widespread as email, and anti-spam measures are going to take the instance toots are coming from into account.
- yogthos 6y agoOn the other hand, there might not be a similar incentive to create spam in the first place. I guess we'll see how that develops going forward.