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> Mastodon is decentralized, but last I heard ~50% of users were on 3 nodes I would argue that the user distribution does not matter. What's important is elim
by Evidlo 6y ago
> Mastodon is decentralized, but last I heard ~50% of users were on 3 nodes
I would argue that the user distribution does not matter. What's important is eliminating network effects, which you get with federation.
I think most people would consider email a successful federated service, and yet far more than half of users are only on the biggest three servers.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/whos-the-biggest-u-s-e-mail-service-of-them-all-hint-its-not-gmail/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/whos-the-biggest-u-s-e-mail-se...
- AshamedCaptain 6y agoI agree: if say the 3 nodes used different implementations, this would basically be an ideal situation. I don't know about Mastodon's case, but in Matrix the extremely low popularity of alternative servers is kind of a big roadblock.
- Evidlo 6y ago> in Matrix the extremely low popularity of alternative servers is kind of a big roadblock. This sounds like the opposite of the point I was making. What is this a roadblock to?
- AshamedCaptain 6y agoBecause at some point if there is only one server implementation and one server, they can get away if they change the protocol.