FediThing 🏳️‍🌈 @FediThing@chinwag.org
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If mastodon.social carries on growing at the expense of others, the Fedi will soon be in danger, here's why: fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-ide

At the same time, Mastodon's server devs are creating brilliant features to help decentralise the Fediverse. The v4.5.0 release will auto-federate all replies in threads, greatly helping smaller servers.

The good stuff will be pointless if mastodon.social keeps growing. It's as if Mastodon gGmbH isn't sure what it wants: does it want to build the world's only truly decentralised social network, or does it want to make a centralised social network which is structurally destined to enshittify?

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Illustration of a stylised fox opening a treasure chest. Inside the chest are icons of various Fediverse services including Mastodon, Pixelfed and PeerTube as well as the overall Fediverse logo.

Mastodon.social is not a good way to join Mastodon. If you’re already on it, you might want to move your account to a different Mastodon server. | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

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Link author: Fedi.Tips@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

FediThing 🏳️‍🌈 @FediThing@chinwag.org
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This is NOT a difficult situation to solve.

There is a really easy solution: keep recommending one server for people who don't like choice, but regularly rotate it so growth is spread out. The app could have a button saying "Join mas.to" instead of "Join mastodon.social", for example.

The app makers could choose a pool of reliable general servers with track records going back many years (some are listed here: fedi.garden/servers-sorted-by-) and recommend one of these on the front page of the app. They could then regularly change which one is recommended, so that each one in the reliable pool gradually gets a share of new signups.

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Servers sorted by founding year | Fedi.Garden

Highlighting nice servers on Mastodon and the Fediverse

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