Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

@jzb I use Tootle because it is also adaptive to my Librem 5 screen, but I hear development has stopped on it. Hopefully someone will pick it up now!

In the physical world I've seen a large influx of folks moving to my town over the past few years and it definitely has had a number of negative impacts (along with some positive) as town infrastructure tries to keep up with the growth and change in culture. Metering growth based on the speed you can manage it makes sense.

As more people join the #Fediverse, some instances will likely need to pause new registrations while they allow their existing community to absorb new members. This is a *good* thing and no different from towns limiting new housing developments based on what town infrastructure can handle. The town/city governance metaphor applies pretty well to the Fediverse in my opinion.

@shawnp0wers I do wonder how many myths about dragons resulted from people discovering fossils throughout the ages.

@dyn This is the full text of my proposal. I'm not saying it's perfect, but its an idea that I do think has promise if it gets implemented. https://source.puri.sm/liberty/host/smilodon/-/issues/6

@dyn This week might be a bad time to make an argument in favor of the long-term stability of large centralized, private social networks :)

Migrating to a new instance in the face of the issues you describe would be a LOT more seamless than the migration many people just did this week.

@dyn The idea there is that the bot is simply slapping a private hashtag on things and folks who follow that hashtag can treat it like others that they either follow or filter. So a bot with a bug at 3am would simply mean there are tagged posts you either see or don't, until the bug is fixed.

@dyn This is also why I'm glad people are already naturally kind of spreading out as they migrate here. Infosec folks found infosec.exchange, others other instances, instead of everyone all going to mastodon.social.

Taking advantage of federation helps address scaling concerns both in terms of actual load and with moderation. Distributing governance and capacity across different towns and cities. Better and more scalable than everyone in the world living in NYC.

@dyn One idea with my hashtag proposal was that it would allow people to write their own bots that would add tags to posts themselves, and people who trusted the intelligence of those bots could follow their hashtags. Again this is just a proposal, no one has implemented my idea of allowing users to post private hashtags on other posts that others could follow.

@dyn Differences in design also make it harder to get amplified on here (which is a good thing). You don't have algorithms to game to get yourself in front of more eyeballs. Less of a focus on gaming engagement to spread a message. This leads to folks complaining at first about discoverability, but it's in service of the longer-term health of discourse. It means things happen more organically.

@dyn In many ways the fediverse is better suited than a centralized instance. Load gets distributed. Reported posts go to the local and remote instance mod. Mods on either side can block individuals or entire servers. Different instances have different mod preferences, folks flock to instances that match their mod prefs.

This happened a few years ago with Gab and the general response throughout a lot of the rest of the fediverse was to block the instance server-wide.

@accidentalciso Welcome!

@waldoj I had the same experience today! While I have been on here for years, now I find myself checking here before Twitter.

Musk's logic is that you only need half the employees if they work twice as long. By making remaining staff come into the office he can enforce his preferred 80-hr work weeks. I feel bad both for those who were laid off and those who remain.