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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This is not an attack on Eugen, I don't do those. Most of what @Gargron does is amazing, the Fedi owes him a great deal, and the fact he turned down large sums of VC money recently shows great integrity.

But eventually most people in that position will crack. Ever larger sums of money can make even the nicest people sell out.

If most of the Fediverse is on mastodon.social, it WILL receive more takeover bids. If it grows even further, these bids will become even higher.

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JamesTDG

@feditips makes me glad I'm holed out on world than social. I am a bit worried about the app though, I don't want to switch to tooot just because I much prefer the UI of this app...

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The Godzillionaire's Club

@feditips social media in general were censored before Elon bought out titter. Why the uproar now and not before?

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Marco Vujevic

@feditips does this even matter? I was under the impression that users can just "move" their account to a different server?

Why would this be a problem then?

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Algernon D'Ammassa

@feditips Scratching my head here. I’m neither technically proficient nor especially patient. I heard Mastodon was “hard,” only to find out it isn’t, including choosing a server. It really isn’t hard but that’s what I keep hearing.

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Runyan50

@feditips @algernon If an oligarch buys newsie and @jeff becomes a billionaire, can’t I just migrate to a different server?

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