Mastodon has seen a renewed interest these last few days, but when you look at the statistics mastodon.social siphons the biggest part of the pie, it sees a few thousands new sign-ups a day, while medium sized instance and smaller ones only get a few, sometimes just single digits increase.
This has been exacerbated since mastodon changed its UI both on web and mobile apps, to make the flagship instance the default one for sign-up in an effort to lower the entry barrier, which on the same time is leading to unhealthy concentration, on a platform that advocates for decentralization through federation.
Do you think this is the way forward on the fediverse ?
#mastodon #pixelfed #lemmy #fediverse
The bad assumption here is that everyone knows about the wrongdoings of an admin. When the power is abused, the masses don’t know to move. The mastodon.social admins arbitrarily block whoever expresses a viewpoint they oppose. The thousands of users who that power affects are mostly unaware. The rest are too lazy to move.
The mastodon.social instance /is/ evil. Yet people have not moved away.