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The author makes two good points: 1. Nobody wants to maintain a generalist instance, partly because it's harder to apply generalist moderation policies and par
by Octokiddie 4y ago
The author makes two good points:
1. Nobody wants to maintain a generalist instance, partly because it's harder to apply generalist moderation policies and partly because it attracts so many more users.
2. Running your own instance does solve (1), but Mastodon was not designed as a P2P network and likely can't function that way.
- Duralias 4y agoRunning your own instance works, as long as everyone else isn't. I run my own and while my local feed is dead (even though I am not the only one on it), "home" and "federated" are fairly lively after following a few people.
- toofy 4y ago> Nobody wants to maintain a generalist instance… i’m not sure what ya mean, the largest instance is generalist. almost all of the most populated instances are also generalist: mastodon.social mastodon.cloud mastodon.online mstdn.social mas.to mastodon.world and on and on. there is no shortage of smaller generalist servers either. i may be misunderstanding your larger point tho?