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mstdn.social

For the first time ever, the most common way to sign up on the Fediverse is now directing people to sign up on one specific server, rather than making them choose.

This will make mastodon.social grow even more quickly than it has before, and future waves of new Mastodon users may end up mostly there. It's very plausible this one server could become the majority of the Fediverse in the near future.

If that happens, the Fediverse would no longer be protected from buyouts by nasty people.

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FediTips has moved!

Yes, signing up on one server is much easier for people who are used to centralised services like Twitter, Facebook etc.

But as we have seen from Twitter, such a setup leaves you at the mercy of Musk-type takeovers. For-profit social networks do not like federation, they hate it as they see it as competition. It is very likely that a commercial takeover of a majority server would defederate it, to prevent people leaving and simplify its maintenance.

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@feditips

Can we ask the developers to change it asap? It shouldn’t be a major change, I would have thought.

@feditips Ok, this irks me enough to ask you to back up your statement.
The protocol is open source and migration is to some degree built in to it, what makes you think that the friction would be anything like the same?

MaryPot

@feditips

And, I suspect, it will lead new, less informed, users to think that mastodon.social IS mastodon.

Mutiny Crinshaw

@feditips
As a newbie to Mastodon, I found this series of posts very helpful. I understand now the importance of migrating to another server but I am still confused about it. A server is different from a Group? Will I still be able to see the folks I am following? It changes what I see under "Local" and "Federated," right? Or the navigation also changes? Sorry for the barrage of newbie questions :\

🐌’s Pace

@feditips Somehow, that doesn’t seem right to me. I like having a large variety of servers, each with their own personality. I’m not a Scot, but I wouldn’t give up the friendliness and earthiness of .scot for anything.