Conversation

Notices

1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 19:35:40 JST Aral Balkan

   “Hey, some fediverse instances are growing larger and larger, isn’t that great? Yay!”

   Stop and think about what this means. You’re celebrating the creation of fiefdoms and feudal lords. Mini Zuckerbergs, if you will.

   There’s a reason I’ve been shouting from the rooftops about limiting server sizes for as long as I can remember.

   e.g., If mastodon.social blocks my instance of one, they block 1,196,910 accounts from interacting with me. If I block them… I do the exact same thing to myself.

   • Jay Stephens (jaystephens@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 20:00:53 JST Jay Stephens

     in reply to

     @aral one of my first thoughts when I joined fedi was "there should be a pact to only federate with instances below X" - had anything like that emerged or been proposed?

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 20:00:53 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • Jay Stephens

     @jaystephens No, but there should be.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jun-2023 14:40:30 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • shauny :heart_progress:

     @shauny I couldn’t agree more. And that requires a rethink of the entire architecture.

     https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web

     #SmallWeb #peerToPeerWeb

   • shauny :heart_progress: (shauny@tech.lgbt)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jun-2023 14:40:31 JST shauny :heart_progress:

     in reply to

     @aral it needs to be simpler and cheaper to self host!