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> Blocking larger servers doesn’t do any good, doesn’t encourage users to migrate or set up own servers, and seems self-defeating.

yeah, that's my concern. let's say that everyone does defederate m.s and people do spread across smaller servers, but after some time one of those grows in size and gets hit by a similar wave of spammers. do we repeat the same thing over and over, further fracturing the Fediverse? at some point most people will grow tired of it.

Like 14 May 2023 at 19:48 | Wall-to-wall | Open on masto.ai

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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

@noodlejetski @tchambers @FediThing or we learn that maybe we should keep instance size in check and spread the load. Large instances disable registrations, admins that want more action open new instances instead of scaling one till infinity and beyond.

14 May 2023 at 19:52 | Open on mstdn.social

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@rysiek
@tchambers @FediThing that would be optimal! I'm just worried that it'll take too many iterations for people to finally learn that, and we'll end up with a jumbled mess of Defediverse.

14 May 2023 at 20:04 | Open on masto.ai

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@noodlejetski @tchambers @rysiek

It's a server admin's duty to close signups if they are growing too large.

They can redirect people to sign up on other servers instead. This is what mastodon.social themselves used to do very regularly.

What we need to avoid is any instance being "too big to defederate", it's like banks being "too big to fail".

14 May 2023 at 20:01 | Open on tech.lgbt