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The entire model of the Fediverse begins to fall apart when there are individual instances that are so big other small instances feel obligated to be diplomatic with them to avoid defederation.
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This has been the crux of my crusade that some just labeled "drama hounding" or whatever. It's fucking retarded to have a large, essentially "centralized" instance on software designed for decentralization. This is why I see something perverse in every large instance admin; you'd have to be specifically after some type of notoriety or eventual big transformation towards profitability or any other number of motives that make it so you would be partial in your moderation, or otherwise manipulated, while also choosing suboptimal outcomes for the network. It's certainly not good for their users, where an entire sort of posting culture gets demolished if anyone takes them down, versus something vibrant that can emerge resiliently between many individual instances that cycle in and out of existence.
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I'm not kidding, some of the early leftwing Mastodon instances hated Eugen and mastodon.social for this very reason; Eugen is trying to be thrift store Big Tech. He does not care if everyone is herded into one big instance. Furthermore as a result of it's size Mastodon.social doesn't janny as hard as the left wing instances with schizo admins watching 24/7 would like to be able to.
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>This is why I see something perverse in every large instance admin; you'd have to be specifically after some type of notoriety or eventual big transformation towards profitability
I don't expect The Shitpost Cloud to ever have a significant amount of users, but if for some reason I ended up getting lots of signups I'd probably cap it at 500-1000 because that seems like around the amount of users an instance can have before it's just too big for its own good.
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Where one would draw the line is certainly discretionary, for me I think it's about 100 active users with consideration towards something like Dunbar's number, the limit past which it's increasingly likely ever member can't have a quality connection with every other local member (let alone all the remotes they'd be interacting with).
Certainly, if instances on the scale of Poast split all of its active users into an equivalent number of 100-man instances, it would mean a rise in a huge number of independent, high-activity instances that don't monolithically stonewall parts of the network, and which are much more difficult to completely take down, while also allowing each to develop a more specialized niche that better serves whoever lands there.
It would also make for a lot of new admins that are both thus decentralizing expertise of how to run an instance, and make for more hands and eyes potentially working towards improving the software.
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My goal with the multi user instance I'm going to spin up when I ditch this job is both quality over quantity, and also to get some more interesting people who keep asking the instance question on here.
The problem with that question too especially in the lefty side is a lot of people seem to focus on solely joining "hobby focused" servers (usually shit) or worse, they want echochambers (the political servers).
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