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   Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Saturday, 31-Dec-2022 03:37:00 JST Evan Prodromou

   So, this was my least enjoyable poll so far.

   We don't have great terminology on the fediverse for account services and other kinds of services. So a lot of people didn't get the question.

   But also, the question really is, how many of a particular kind of service do we need for a healthy fediverse?

   Four options might be:

   - 0
   - 1
   - much more than 1 and much less than the number of Mastodon instances
   - the number of Mastodon instances

   Most folks don't think about this kind of question, though.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Saturday, 31-Dec-2022 05:21:09 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Space Catitude 🚀

     @TerryHancock I think by default you are correct.

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     Space Catitude 🚀 (terryhancock@realsocial.life)'s status on Saturday, 31-Dec-2022 05:21:10 JST Space Catitude 🚀

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     @evan
     It's that 3rd one, IMHO, though it may depend on the service.

     It would be awkward if every instance were running different software. But having only one dominate is bad.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Saturday, 31-Dec-2022 09:13:40 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Death_By_Democracy

     @Shan_Ye the question is important in how we think about services working on the fediverse.

     When someone launches a good¹ full-text search service for the fediverse, that meets our community's requirements, we might ask, is that enough? Do we need more? How many more?

     We might also design those services differently if we think there may need to be 10, 1000, or 1000000 of them.

     If none of those seem important to you, maybe you're not the audience for the poll.

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     Death_By_Democracy (shan_ye@independent-media.co.uk)'s status on Saturday, 31-Dec-2022 09:13:42 JST Death_By_Democracy

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     @evan I still have no idea what this is about. I didn't say anything the first time tho.

     Maybe try it another way - why is the question important?

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Saturday, 31-Dec-2022 09:14:13 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Darius Kazemi

     @darius you are correct sir

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     Darius Kazemi (darius@friend.camp)'s status on Saturday, 31-Dec-2022 09:14:14 JST Darius Kazemi

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     @evan I did not see the original poll but my answer is much more than one and much less than the number of ~Mastodon instances

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Saturday, 31-Dec-2022 15:15:00 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Darius Kazemi

     @darius also, add me to a list

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jan-2023 02:33:15 JST Evan Prodromou

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     My least enjoyable poll ever was this one on Twitter, where I had lots of people telling me you can't learn from books.

     https://mobile.twitter.com/evanpro/status/1574057757442920454