I don’t know who needs to hear this, but the instance mastodon.social is 30% of the entire #Fediverse.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but the instance mastodon.social is 30% of the entire #Fediverse. If it ever goes down for any reason, a huge chunk of the Fediverse will go down.
It defeats the purpose of having a fully decentralized network if most people pile into a single instance.
30% of the Fediverse disappearing sounds more "survivable" from a network resiliency POV than say, if Bluesky PDS (controlling maybe 99%+?) went down.
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@Oregon_Pacifist I remember at one point they actually closed social to new sign ups to force people to join other instances.
I feel like they need to do this again or switch the default signup server to something else for at least a time.
@judeau@mas.to that's cool, I didn't know m.s did that.
That gives off some edgy "private torrent tracker" vibes. Nobody else I know ever closes registrations!
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@julian It's possible that I am misremembering, but I'm almost certain that they closed it off to new accounts for a brief period of time 4 or 5 years ago.
