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   ar.al? (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Nov-2022 23:14:12 JST ar.al?

   We should not be optimising Mastodon so it can handle more people per server. We should be optimising Mastodon so it incentivises more serves with fewer people.

   (And if you take that line of thinking to its logical conclusion, you arrive at the idea behind the Small Web: https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/)

   #decentralisation #federation #fediverse #SmallWeb

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     ar.al? (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Nov-2022 23:14:03 JST ar.al?

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     • Eugen Rochko

     Optimising #Mastodon = designing flows that encourage people to leave mastodon.social for other instances, not accepting any more new members on mastodon.social, and making design changes that limit how much a single instance can scale.

     A single instance that can scale to host hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of people, is not a design success in decentralisation, it’s a design failure. (It’s a design success in #BigTech.)

     CC @Gargron

     #decentralisation #centralisation #federation

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     ar.al? (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Nov-2022 23:14:08 JST ar.al?

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     Food for thought: The bigger mastodon.social gets, the less successful the #fediverse is.

     Sadly, the fundamental design of Mastodon mirrors the design of Big Tech (a server architecture that can support hundreds of thousands of “users”) and thus inherits its success criteria.

     I feel it’s time we at least started thinking about what the web would look like if we all had our own place on it and what it would take to get there from here.

     #decentralisation #centralisation #fediverse #SmallWeb

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     casey is remote (realcaseyrollins@social.freetalklive.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 17:33:11 JST casey is remote

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     • Eugen Rochko

     @aral @Gargron I disagree somewhat; yes, scaling well is an L for decentralization, but it is a W for the freedom of hosters.

     What if you want to use #Mastodon to host your own centralized platform? #TruthSocial is a good example of this; #Trump aside, it's awesome that you can use #Mastodon to both be part of a huge network, make your own network, or make a standalone social site.

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