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 @Natanox @PeterLG I've decided to not link to the original article. It's not particularly hard to find. But as for that quoted comment, the same group that derides Mastodon for the change of the default instance in their official apps, is the group that wants "small fedi" where people are excluded unless they know someone who runs a server or know how to deploy a Server themselves. They explicitly want mastodon to be hard for "normies" to use to retain their ideals for what it should be 5 comments
 @thisismissem @PeterLG Nothing speaks against a simple registry assistant, however it doesn't have to be just one server either. Users could literally be asked about their hobbies once with known good instances being automatically picked by your choice. Instead now the existence of the "official Mastodon" as well as "those others" is communicated, which is just awful and not in the spirit of the Fedi at all. @Natanox @PeterLG βknown good instances" is extremely hard to define, because different people have different needs & safety requirements. It's just like people going βgoogle mastodon -> mastodon.social -> sign upβ Perhaps the language could be changed, but when the software's reputation is built on people's first experiences, there does need to be some control over that experience, and the instances list just wasn't working, with some of them just *disappearing* @thisismissem @PeterLG Build a proper board with some oversight then, making sure every server provides the same level of safety and quality. But don't just slowly centralize itβ¦ that is and will always be the wrong approach. |
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@thisismissem @PeterLG So I assume you're talking about this one. https://privacy.thenexus.today/mastodon-hard-fork/
Will read it in full later.
I see who you're arguing against. Still, Mastodon's decision to strengthen centralization by leading everyone to the same instance isn't something worth defending in my eyes.