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Good to see that most of the instances have caught up

LW announced they are planning to migrate in the coming weeks: !lemmyworld@lemmy.world

  • maegulEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Mastodons community is also very much aware of the issue. There are some who even call for defederstion from large instances. The main impetus being mastodons people’s concern for safety and moderation, where big instances necessarily allow much more to pass through. So while there’s more of a push from the top to make mastodon.social the flagship, from the grassroots there’s very much a push against it (I’m loosely a voice in that might self).

    Lemmy.world’s push to be a big vanilla instance is not much different from what’s happening over at mastodon I’d say not least because it’s run by people running one of the big mastodon instances.

    In the end I’m not sure the two spaces differ that much in their dynamics around this, notwithstanding the differences in the attitudes of the lead devs, especially given that the same result has occurred. Which is why I say it’s likely a natural phenomenon. You’ll found the distribution of instance sizes likely follows a power law which is common in nature.

    • Blaze@discuss.onlineOPEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      So while there’s more of a push from the top to make mastodon.social the flagship, from the grassroots there’s very much a push against it (I’m loosely a voice in that might self).

      That’s good. I still think that having the developers pushing or not for an instance makes a different, wasn’t Mastodon 40% Mastodon.social at some point?

      • maegulEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        Hmmm … it might have been, I’m not sure. If so, not since or during the twitter migration, as my understanding there is that mastodon.social couldn’t scale well and so it was up to all the other and often new instances to take on the load (similar to lemmy’s story).

        Since then, AFAIU, they’ve put their server on kubernetes so it can horizontally scale, and of course, put themselves as the default instance in the mobile app. But as user growth hasn’t really continued on mastodon it’s hard to tell what the dynamics are now. Having glanced at the numbers a bit over the past year my impression is that the proportion of users on mastodon.social has been slowly growing. I haven’t seen any analysis though. I did some analysis early last year (https://hachyderm.io/@maegul/110331433071884694) and maybe I’ll repeat that soon.