Gregory's Server@pearlbear that is also my concern. It has the potential to harm everyone around.
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@ocdtrekkie @rysiek @thisismissem What does that even mean "committed to being on the fediverse to begin with"? For most people, you don't get committed to being on the fediverse until you have experience with it. And your experience with it will determine your level of commitment. Most people don't join the fediverse knowing, or being committed to the philosophy of it.  @pearlbear @rysiek @thisismissem I think there's a huge amount of people just checking out briefly who churn through the m.s number. I browse our local a lot and it's almost entirely garbage. If you're afraid of the blast radius of m.s going away, stop over here and spend some time on our local timeline.  @ocdtrekkie if the churn is so high, maybe that's another reason not to put new people by default on an instance that, as you say yourself, has "garbage" local timeline? 馃 @rysiek @pearlbear @thisismissem For a large instance or Twitter analogue, the local timeline just isn't a good way to browse. Imagine a feed of every post on Twitter. I think folks benefit from eventually moving somewhere with a tighter community though, yes. @rysiek @pearlbear @thisismissem But it would give you a very different idea of the server than you might have looking solely at the stats. @ocdtrekkie you are making a very good argument for not making m.s the default instance for new people. It's a different argument to the one I've been making, but it's still a good one. @ocdtrekkie find me a way to prove this, and I will calm down. In the meantime, I will work with the data that is available, thanks. |
@rysiek @pearlbear @thisismissem They have to start somewhere. I think the goal should be to get as many active folks who start at m.s to move off as possible. But I suspect you'd find most of the large numbers you are worried about aren't really committed to being on the fediverse to begin with.