@feditips For a directory of Canadian instances try this site https://mastodonserver.ca

@feditips What is your take on "one profile"-Mastodon Servers? How does the Fediverse scale with many very small servers? Is there an optimum, say for how 100 Mio users should be distributed on how many servers?

@feditips I keep meaning to move. I just haven't yet. I will try to remember this weekend.

@feditips :(

@feditips Personally, I don’t get error messages on my server and moving to a new server feels like a chore, but that’s me.

Am I allowed to keep my server if I don’t have this issue already or should I partake moving?

@feditips indeed. They really should have capped the number of users, and better directed them to other instances. It seems like growth at the expense of vision.

@feditips I'd move to another instance for sure, just that there's so many issues and caveats that come with moving that I'm honestly put off the idea. Portability remains a problem for Mastodon and it's hard to encourage moving when doing so is like leaving several boxes of your possessions at your old place.

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If you are fine with german language, you can follow mastodon.social statistics here: @mastodon_social

More statistics on https://www.mastodonien.de (in German).

@feditips Is there a politics instance? Many thanks in advance

@feditips Tell 'em about regional servers.

@feditips what server do you suggest for general interest folks?

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https://instances.social/ lists
It would really be helpful to have a database of data about performance and other attributes of mastodon servers, to make choosing a server easier. It kinda defeats the purpose of having servers run by non-commercial progressive interests WHEN USERS CANT FIND THESE SERVERS. Users have a right to know uptime, view count, backup policy, etc. Most Mastodon servers operate in secrecy, NOT DISCLOSING THIS BASIC INFO TO THEIR USERS. And this is different from Facebook / twitter how? At least with Twitter we know that an incompetent musk is wheeling servers into moving vans. With Mastodon servers we have no idea.

18,000 instances with some metrics, but you need to know how to import HTML into a spreadsheet to use it.

@feditips@mstdn.social
How does it threaten the future of the Fedi? That seems to be a stretch. I believe a bigger threat is hamstrung admins that are only expected to survive on donations. People want to tell “small instances” but that’s not the solution & we can’t make the medium to large instances kick people off and go small. Just look at this year alone and how many instances are offline. That to me is a danger to the future of the Fediverse, culturally being opposed to admin’s financially supporting themselves is also a huge threat.
Mastodon.social runs fine and between individuals and companies it gets plenty of donations

@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?

@feditips another good tool is instances.social

@feditips If anyone here wants to move, Orchard’s an open option for anyone that wants a chill, general instance. Find it on https://fedi.garden

@feditips if this is the case, then why is mastodon.social still allowing sign-ups? Don’t they run other instances as well? What about removing the biggest servers from the recommended list? There’s got to be more solutions than just asking people to move to a new server.

@feditips No surprise as one server (mastodon.social) would become the dominant server. Expect it will get larger as more people sign up and as smaller servers become too expensive to operate and consolidate. Given time expect network eventually to become one dominant server with a few large ones and smattering of smaller ones, but the distributed system will disappear. Wait for it. JMO

@feditips In point 7, it is recommended not to delete the old account in order to redirect users to the new one. Does this play a significant role for the server load?

@feditips Ack. I actually just helped a non-tech savvy friend sign up for Mastodon (yay!) and suggested they use the same server I'm on, but the set-up process suggested mastodon.social, so they wanted and did end up using that one, because it was the "official" recommendation. 😕