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Yeah, though as we can see from experience of Gab being the biggest Mastodon instance and Mastodon not having collapsed, it's possible to have an alternative wi
by BlueTemplar 6y ago
Yeah, though as we can see from experience of Gab being the biggest Mastodon instance and Mastodon not having collapsed, it's possible to have an alternative without it necessarily becoming a "witch town".
- M2Ys4U 6y agoI'd take the claim that Gab was "the biggest Mastodon instance" with a pinch of salt, to be honest. Plus, they were immediately and almost universally banned by other instances in the fediverse
- BlueTemplar 6y agoYes, while technically true, it's only due to the way that they arrived vs the way the rest of the Mastodon federation grew.
- rewq4321 6y agoGab broke/removed the code for federation several months ago, so they're no longer part of the fediverse. See my reply to your GP for more details.
- rewq4321 6y agoGab left the fediverse quite a while ago now: https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/ie49qp/is_gab_still_part_of_mastadon/g2g5ghs/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/ie49qp/is_gab_sti... https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/ie49qp/is_gab_still_part_of_mastadon/g3k2q7n/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/ie49qp/is_gab_sti... I don't think they ever really cared about decentralisation/federation. Seems they just wanted a nice codebase to work from.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoMy main point is that Mastodon survived the ordeal.
- mkr-hn 6y agoIt wasn't hard when all the big apps and most of the big instances blocked it between the announcement and launch. The instances that didn't block it mostly looked like Gab anyway.