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kinda would have expected them to run their own instance of sorts

by zokier 4y ago

corbet 4y ago
It might come to that at some point; it would be a nice thing to offer to our reader community! But we'd have to maintain it and would have another thing to moderate and ... For now we're just getting our toes wet.
ancientsofmumu 4y ago
There's a tangible benefit to being discoverable without effort (no friction for users); other "famous" FOSS projects are part of the fosstodon.org instance such as https://fosstodon.org/@mate https://fosstodon.org/@mate - kind of makes sense to me as a generic user. $0.02
- blacklight 4y ago
  Discoverability is a bit of an issue with the Fediverse in general. Those who run their own instances are initially quite "isolated" and hard to find, unless they advertise themselves on other channels. Relays are supposed to make federated content more easily discoverable, but right now they're still far from being what I expect them to be (i.e. curated lists of instances categorized by topic, like an OPML that aggregates multiple feeds/channels based on some criteria), and they're instead saturated and endless streams of zillions of instances with no filtering/aggregation criteria and plenty of spam/adult content. And if you run your instance they're going to fill up your database storage FAST. After joining to the largest relay I immediately got my federated timeline flooded by erotic anime toots in Japanese and filled up 50 MB of db storage in an hour. Fediverse user directories like those run by @FediFollows are good ideas for discovering new content, but they're still small (we're talking of a few hundreds profiles so far). But I also believe that it's worth the effort of running your own instance. Right now most of the folks are on mastodon.social or mastodon.online. Fosstodon itself already has 21k users. The purpose of the Fediverse is to be as decentralized as possible, because smaller communities are easier to moderate, aggregate and federate. If everybody ends up signing up to 5-6 big instances, and the long tail is left to pick the crumbs, we'll have again the centralization problem that we were trying to solve.

kinda would have expected them to run their own instance of sorts

by zokier 4y ago

kinda would have expected them to run their own instance of sorts

It might come to that at some point; it would be a nice thing to offer to our reader community! But we'd have to maintain it and would have another thing to moderate and ... For now we're just getting our toes wet.

ancientsofmumu 4y ago

There's a tangible benefit to being discoverable without effort (no friction for users); other "famous" FOSS projects are part of the fosstodon.org instance such as https://fosstodon.org/@mate https://fosstodon.org/@mate - kind of makes sense to me as a generic user. $0.02

blacklight 4y ago
Discoverability is a bit of an issue with the Fediverse in general. Those who run their own instances are initially quite "isolated" and hard to find, unless they advertise themselves on other channels. Relays are supposed to make federated content more easily discoverable, but right now they're still far from being what I expect them to be (i.e. curated lists of instances categorized by topic, like an OPML that aggregates multiple feeds/channels based on some criteria), and they're instead saturated and endless streams of zillions of instances with no filtering/aggregation criteria and plenty of spam/adult content. And if you run your instance they're going to fill up your database storage FAST. After joining to the largest relay I immediately got my federated timeline flooded by erotic anime toots in Japanese and filled up 50 MB of db storage in an hour. Fediverse user directories like those run by @FediFollows are good ideas for discovering new content, but they're still small (we're talking of a few hundreds profiles so far). But I also believe that it's worth the effort of running your own instance. Right now most of the folks are on mastodon.social or mastodon.online. Fosstodon itself already has 21k users. The purpose of the Fediverse is to be as decentralized as possible, because smaller communities are easier to moderate, aggregate and federate. If everybody ends up signing up to 5-6 big instances, and the long tail is left to pick the crumbs, we'll have again the centralization problem that we were trying to solve.