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 @zvavybir It feels to me like the power is already in their hands. #Mastodon gGmbH maintains the #GitHub project and https://joinmastodon.org. Have you & the others who believe this tried to raise the issue with them? A simple solution to increase signup on other #servers would be to remove the "Join mastodon.social" button on the officialΒΉ #website and instead display a full list of servers. 9 comments
@madeindex Your old account is immediately, fully redirected to your new one, so there is no need to have both (in fact, you even can't use mastodon.social after a migration anymore (although you can cancel the migration and then use it normally again)). @madeindex The user and server drop is pretty much independent of this issue and needs to be addressed separately. (also I'm not completely convinced it's true give the data on the website, it seems pretty steady.)  the reason i didn't use mastodon until fairly recently is the 'server' thing which is useless to me i don't want multiple choices i want one place to interact glad i found mastodon social because i won't use a zuck, musk or dorsey product |
Gregory's Server
@madeindex This problem is well-known and raised often, but sadly no action by Eugen/the Mastodon gGmbH has been taken so far. While you are of course correct that being the official maintainers of a major software and the owners of the primary sign-up site is a lot of power, there is also a lot of power being an admin of a big instance, independent from the other things. The most pressing concern to me is that the large size means that I can't really defederate mastodon.social (I now have decided to do it anyway as the pains have become too high and I remembered ways to circumvent the worst of it (I can still subscribe to the RSS feed of the accounts I want to follow in my RSS reader and I have an old account that I can use to write to mastodon.social users if I need to)) without loosing a lot of people I care about (and losing people who want to hear from me β the list of accounts in the first post are all following me from mastodon.social), so one of the most important and potent moderation tools is effectively toothless for this one instance.
@madeindex This problem is well-known and raised often, but sadly no action by Eugen/the Mastodon gGmbH has been taken so far. While you are of course correct that being the official maintainers of a major software and the owners of the primary sign-up site is a lot of power, there is also a lot of power being an admin of a big instance, independent from the other things. The most pressing concern to me is that the large size means that I can't really defederate mastodon.social (I now have decided...