Are you wondering why this place is on so many servers?

There are really important reasons for this, to do with user safety, sustainability, and empowerment of users and grassroots communities. You can read all the reasons here:

➡️ fedi.tips/why-is-the-fediverse

On a centralised network like Twitter etc, if owners turn bad, users are stuck there, powerless to do anything. Owners can get away with terrible things.

On decentralised networks, users have real power, and bad owners suffer consequences.

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bad girl, no cookie!

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The problem is, the fediverse is more brittle than this makes it sound. It's still better than any centralized platform, but it's not as robust as it should be:

1. Small servers can and will go down without a warning, leaving users stranded and their data lost. The Mastodon pledge tries to get a handle on this, but only works when people adhere to it.

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Merijn

@feditips it's so wild that the "owner of network turns bad" had actually happened now

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Jimmy Havok

@feditips Baked-in anti-monopoly. Adam Smith would approve.

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נחום, מסיט דיון ומדיח כלים

@feditips
This was what was so great with IRC back in the day when that medium was popular. If the mods on your chatroom ("Channel") abused their power, you moved to another channel or started your own. If the admins of your server/network abused their power or were negligent, you moved servers/networks or opened your own. I miss those days.

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Aidan

@feditips I’d love to see an account like @FediFollows that suggests smaller instances to follow. I am thinking of joining a smaller instance but don’t really know where to go.

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