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I enjoy that most instances are small and will remain that way. There are a few that may grow to the point where scaling could become difficult, but there are w
by kup0 4y ago
I enjoy that most instances are small and will remain that way. There are a few that may grow to the point where scaling could become difficult, but there are ways to combat that.
What the author sees as problems with mastodon (decentralization, moderation differences between instances, etc) to me are the strengths of mastodon. It's the whole dang point.
Most mastodon instances aren't trying to be another twitter. The ones that are and do want to scale will inevitably run into scaling issues that any large platform full of user-generated data will run into. I'm just glad that there are different instances so when one big instance runs into scaling problems, other instances can just keep rolling along unaffected by it
I think talking about mastodon as a singular entity is fraught with problems because it's simply not that