Wandering Adventure Party

@elduvelle

If you follow the guide, your old posts will remain in existence and help redirect people to your new account

@davidbeck

There is nothing more convenient about mastodon.social for new members though.

New people joining e.g. mas.to would give them an experience that is just as easy without centralising the network.

@davidbeck

Going from 15% to 30% in two years is very much centralisation.

When it goes over 50% (which it will do on current numbers) it will be bigger than all other servers put together. It is most of the way there now.

p.p.s. If anyone currently on mastodon.social wants help moving to a different server, there's an easy-to-understand step-by-step guide at https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server

Let me know if you have any difficulties with any particular step

p.s. For anyone wondering why this centralisation is a problem, here's an in-depth look at why mastodon.social's increasing percentage of the Fediverse is dangerous: https://fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-idea-to-join-a-big-server/

p.p.s. I'm not saying join any random server! I run a website at https://fedi.garden to recommend good alternative servers. My point was just that in terms of size, no other server is anywhere near as large as mastodon.social.

Raw numbers are perhaps not enough to get across just how bad the centralisation of the Fediverse by mastodon.social is. I've done a chart to show this visually, hopefully this will make the situation clearer?

Given the circumstances, getting people to join other servers except mastodon.social would greatly help decentralise the Fediverse. It's no longer big vs medium vs small, it's more like supergiant deathstar mastodon.social vs everyone else

#Mastodon #Fediverse #MastodonSocial

Mastodon's new server software (v4.5.0) brings a breakthrough for smaller servers:

No matter which server you are on, all replies to all discussion threads are automatically fetched as soon as you browse a discussion. It doesn't matter which server you are on or which server they are on, you will all see the same complete discussion. (Unless a user or server is banned of course.)

If you've previously held back, this is a great time to try smaller servers:

️ https://fedi.garden