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But you're just saying that the people who run the servers have to run the servers. You don't have to run your own instance - just join one you fancy. So yes,
by Angostura 3y ago
But you're just saying that the people who run the servers have to run the servers. You don't have to run your own instance - just join one you fancy.
So yes, the difficulty then becomes "is this instance being properly run?" but thats not unique to Mastodon, it also applies to things like Twitter - as we've seen. Just without the option to jump to a better Twitter instance - because there is only one.
- _8j50 3y agoI agree with that, except Twitter is one, mastodon is many. For example, my first attempt to use mastodon failed because all the instances wanted an email address and just giving that alone or using temp email was not worth it for me. With twitter, it is one "instance" and I don't have to sample a dozen to figure out which one is right so because it is just one, I setup an email and even a temp burner phone for it in the past. But the risk of having to move to another mastodon is weighty.