@Gargron was that the silly story that Musk had bought Mastodon too? What's really amazing (and disappointing) about that was that people think it is even possible.

@xylophilist Is your model available anywhere?

And also, if you ever get to the point that you're prepared to teach a course on this technique in Scotland, I'd be interested!

@Mastodon this is... Complex. It means that those of us who care about smaller #Mastodon communities will need to think about how to do our own proselytising and onboarding. This isn't to say that I think simplified onboarding is a bad idea, but there is a real problem here.

@dansup There are good arguments both ways, but at the very least I would be very wary. We cannot expect a business whose core aim is the monetisation of metadata on their users to act as a good citizen.

I'd hope that the community would work with e.g. the EU to at minimum outlaw Meta from collecting and monetising metadata on users of other instances they peer with.

@darius That would be me. A software update failed, and I didn't have the spoons to deal with it. Running a Mastodon instance was, for me, an unfunded side project of an unfunded side project; it became more effort (and expense) than it was worth to me.