Wandering Adventure Party

If mastodon.social carries on growing at the expense of others, the Fedi will soon be in danger, here's why: https://fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-idea-to-join-a-big-server/

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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We need to talk about Mastodon gGmbH. They are the main developers of Mastodon's server software & official mobile apps, they own mastodon.social and Mastodon's trademarks. Their behaviour is inexplicably going in two totally opposite directions.

A couple of years ago they started promoting mastodon.social on the official apps while downplaying other servers, causing their server to grow while other servers shrank. Mastodon.social is currently about 28.7% of the active Fediverse and growing.

For comparison, another major server mas.to is just 1.2% of the active Fediverse. Mastodon.social is about twenty-four times bigger.

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@are0h

It's not very well publicised but there's a feature in PeerTube specifically for instances to share a joint federation allowlist:

"We encourage you to create your own PeerTube index, that can be theme-based or moderated according to your rules. This way, we could imagine a group of PeerTube admins following the same index on which they only add platforms they trust."

(https://docs.joinpeertube.org/admin/following-instances#automatically-follow-other-platforms)

It would be really interesting to see an equivalent feature on Mastodon?