@feditips @feditipsua This is excellent: the #Ukraine community was the final thing that made me reluctant to leave the bird site. Thank you!

#NAFO

@dansup all I’ve really wanted for a long time now is a native iOS app

@dansup @PixelFed That's great news. Thank you!

@dansup Henceforth @stux shall be known as Man From The Netherlands. Arise, ye fair knight, and sally forth

@feditips I question whether you should be editorializing from the Fedi.tips account. Many people have come to rely on you for understanding how to use mastodon (and the fediverse generally), and will assume you're speaking in some official capacity.

But what you're doing is advocating for a particular view of the fediverse — which I consider alarmist and, at the very least, open to debate. There's no objective standard by which a server can be declared "too large." Why stoke this conflict?

@dansup Your energy keeps this place ticking. Thanks for gifting it to the 'verse

@dansup Daniel this is cool but ... is there going to be a mobile (and specifically an iOS) app?

I've been holding off really getting into pixelfed, though I've had an account for months, because I've been under the impression an iOS app was coming Real Soon Now. But instead there seems to be a stream of interesting innovations that — did I mention this — I'm holding off on investigating because, you know, no app.

I don't mean to be unfriendly about this, and I know you've got a lot going on.

@dansup @pixelfed @liaizon @feditips

I'm convinced the two-button solution you're contemplating — default server / "let me choose" — is the only one that will work, and the only one that is *fair to new users*.

Making signup a sort of roulette among multiple servers would expose newbies to the risk of problems that are not in your control, as well as create confusion as to who and what they are dealing with. If they have questions, whom do they ask?

1/n

@feditips Good heavens — how did mastodon.social suddenly become an evil menace, and Eugen some kind of villain? It seems to me you’ve spun out a dystopian fantasy of how things *might* go bad, and now you’re whipping up public alarm over that fantasy, *as though it were really happening*. But it’s not! The fediverse is growing and thriving. New communities are being spawned and existing ones are growing in reach and vitality. We can thank, among others, @Gargron for a lot of that.