With all that in mind, here's a suggestion:

➡️ *IF* mastodon.social becomes more than 50% of the Fediverse, either by total users or monthly active users, the rest of us should defederate it.

Sticking with mastodon.social because "that's where the people are" is pointless. Centralised growth will simply cause the governance problems we've seen on Twitter and Facebook to be replicated on here.

Growth has to be decentralised in order to protect the independence of all Fedi servers.

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BakersRelay

@feditips I don’t disagree with you, but I don’t think you’re going change herd behavior, particularly given the fact that people will have a tendency to congregate where the news gathers. The Fediverse is good for generating new systemization. I think we need to see what develops.

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CharlieBleu

@feditips
People go where they want to go. It’s our choice for our reasons.
What I hear in your statement resonates not of growth based upon freedom of choice; but rather, intimates manipulation and control. It’ll sort itself out as it will; and that, as I see it, is the whole point.
I see your point, but man things sure can get a bit paradoxical. Ain’t that just like life?
✌️

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Earthling

@feditips

Ok then use other servers, not mastodon.social.
I use mastodon.world. Also a very good server, thanks to @ruud !
🤗

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NeonkAaa

@feditips
Well, the whole "matrix" communications ecosystem relies on the official matrix.org server. Seems nobody cares

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@feditips Based.

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@feditips IMO if @Gargron (and Mastodon GmbH) believes in the principles of federation they should stop accepting users into mastodon.social and encourage signups on other instances.

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