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Mastodon Migration VOTED

@Gargron People point to the issue of "too big to defederate" as a reason that large instances like m.s are a bad thing. The logic goes that if bad actors are left unchecked then other instances can not simple defederate m.s because that would block too many other accounts. It is certainly true that it is not really possible to defederate a very large instance so large instances have a big responsibility to police themselves.

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Mastodon Migration VOTED

@Gargron Smaller instances always have the threat of defederation as motivation for doing a good job of moderating their users, but bad actors piling on a smaller instance happens too as we have seen in numerous attacks. Simply defederating that instance without any means of re-federation would disenfranchise all those users, so that's another issue that needs our attention.

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Mastodon Migration VOTED

@Gargron So the question remains: Should you move to a smaller instance? The answer is you are free to do whatever you want. Some people like smaller instances because of the greater sense of community or common interest. Some people like big instances because of the broader perspective they may afford. It's up to you.

If you are on mastodon.social and want a more intimate experience, open an account on a smaller server and give it a try. It's your social network.

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@Gargron So the question remains: Should you move to a smaller instance? The answer is you are free to do whatever you want. Some people like smaller instances because of the greater sense of community or common interest. Some people like big instances because of the broader perspective they may afford. It's up to you.

DiamondHeighter

@mastodonmigration @Gargron My impression is that the risk of being on a smaller instance is that it is more likely to stop being supported at some point and then you have to go through the effort of switching to another instance. Even though this isn't supposed to take much effort, it is still an effort with some ramifications.

Thee Mighty Saturnalia

@DiamondHeighter @mastodonmigration @Gargron That's what happened to me. I was able to import my follows but I lost my content and had to start from scratch.

nellie_m

@lydialurch @DiamondHeighter @mastodonmigration

thatโ€™s why Iโ€™m currently setting up a little instance of one. Itโ€™s like five bucks a month and moderation will be easy ๐Ÿ˜€

A Mastodon account has often been compared with email. So having your own little instance is like setting up your own mailbox under your own domain instead of signing up for one of those โ€žfreeโ€œ accounts. With one of the Mastodon hosting services, itโ€™s fairly easy.

Ashley Porciuncula

@nellie_m @lydialurch @DiamondHeighter @mastodonmigration This sounds like a good solution. What service are you doing that through? Are new instances automatically federated?

nellie_m

@AshleyMarineP @lydialurch @DiamondHeighter @mastodonmigration

I found an open spot at Weingรคrtnerโ€˜s. Thereโ€™s also Masto.host and a few others.

Have a look at growyourown.services - thatโ€™s a good starting point. (and as always, big shout out to @feditips for all the tireless work on helping us newbies ๐Ÿ’›)

[object Object]

@lydialurch @DiamondHeighter @mastodonmigration @Gargron same. The Fediverse didnโ€™t stick for me the first time around and when I was ready to give it another try a few years later my instance (and account) was gone

luckysitsinback

@mastodonmigration @Gargron

thanks. it's not easy, ever, but it's worth it, too.

Kevin Karhan :verified:

@mastodonmigration @Gargron I can recommend mstdn.social & masto.ai since @stux / @stux@masto.ai does moderate them quite well and doesn't do much of #defederation outside the obviously irredeemable hatespeech instances...

Julian (โ™ช๐ŸŒปโ™ซ)

@kkarhan
Wasn't he the one who inexplicably suspended Seth Abramson? That was bad publicity for the Fediverse.
@mastodonmigration @Gargron @stux@mstdn.social @stux@masto.ai

Erik Haugen

@TFFPrisoner @kkarhan @mastodonmigration @Gargron @stux @stux Yes, a pretty ban-happy/arbitrary instance; I'd avoid it if you value stability for building up a lot of followers or something.

Seth Abramson makes the point that Mastodon, generally, is sketchy for this purpose: I'd say probably get your own instance if this is your goal.

Otherwise, who cares? Use it if you like, if you get banned just go somewhere else.

I guess one problem with banning is the people who blocked you suddenly don't have you blocked, so they'll have to re-block you if they run into you again. Other than that, no biggie, right?

I think instances blocking instances is likely going to be a bigger problem going forward than banning individuals.

@TFFPrisoner @kkarhan @mastodonmigration @Gargron @stux @stux Yes, a pretty ban-happy/arbitrary instance; I'd avoid it if you value stability for building up a lot of followers or something.

Seth Abramson makes the point that Mastodon, generally, is sketchy for this purpose: I'd say probably get your own instance if this is your goal.

Kevin Karhan :verified:

@ech @TFFPrisoner @mastodonmigration @Gargron well, if you don't like the rules of an instance, do #SelfHosting.

Jist be aware that instances and users can still block one anytime for any reason.

Just like #eMail.

Also I'd like to see some sources since that completely goes against the experience I have with @stux @stux@masto.ai ...

John Sรณos ๐Ÿ‰

@mastodonmigration @Gargron
Two questions: If one does decide to check out a smaller instance, do you have to give up on mastodon.social or can one stay connected to more than one at a time? Secondly, is there a centralized place to learn about what instances, with what thematic focuses, are available to potentially broaden our interests? Thanks.

Mastodon Migration VOTED

@globalpilgrim @Gargron You can open an account on another instance and keep your current account. You can look at joinmastodon.org/servers for some information on various instances. A good way to get a feel for an instance is to look at their /explore page (eg. universeodon.com/explore), which shows you what posts are currently popular among members of that instance. Happy hunting.

Mark Saltveit

@mastodonmigration
Thanks for this. I recently saw a toot claiming that my server - mastodonapp.uk - is being defederated for tolerating transphobia. I haven't seen any, but I don't want to be tooting into the void.

How can I verify or disprove this allegation? I saw no boosts or replies to the toot. Thx

Mastodon Migration VOTED

@kevindalley @Gargron Full statement:

Hello everyone! Weโ€™ve seen a large number of spam direct posts from mastodon.social. We have temporarily limited federation with them.

Apologies for the inconvenience, we plan to reassess/reenable full federation tomorrow if the issue is resolved.

sfba.social/@announcements/110

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We are using โ€œlimitedโ€ federation. This setting means that we only receive and process events for people who are followed by our users...

#moderation

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@mastodonmigration @Gargron
...and ALSO, if you happen to be in the #dotnet ecosystem, you can join dotnet.social, created by the most awesome @styx31, and have a user@dotnet.social handle. ๐Ÿ™‚

Jan Wildeboer ๐Ÿ˜ท:krulorange:

@mastodonmigration @Gargron There is another argument. Every time a spam wave comes from mastodon.social, they cause reports on smaller instances and the admins of these smaller instances have to deal with those reports, which costs time and energy. That's not something normal users see, but we admins have to deal with. This extra work is caused my mastodon.social. It happened 3 times in less than 10 days.

Mastodon Migration VOTED

@jwildeboer @Gargron That is because they hackers are currently targeting mastodon.social. The next attack could be against another instance. Would the extra work then be caused by that instance. No. In both cases it is caused by the hackers. What they want to do is to get us blaming each other, when it is the invader that is at blame.

Jan Wildeboer ๐Ÿ˜ท:krulorange:

@mastodonmigration @Gargron The hackers don't care about the Blame Game. They try to use loopholes and social engineering to get their stuff sent, is all. Making the fediverse and specifically mastodon more resilient and less attractive as a target โ€” that IS our task.

Jan Wildeboer ๐Ÿ˜ท:krulorange:

@mastodonmigration @Gargron Changing the default in Mastodon to "DMs only from people I follow" would already stop many attacks and, IMHO, would also meet expectations of users. The last few spam waves used that loophole โ€” that anyone can send DMs to anyone by default.

ChiefGyk3D

@jwildeboer @mastodonmigration @Gargron I completely agree and I do not like that itโ€™s so open I have a bigger problem with puritanical idealists with a large ego thinking they can just slide into my DMโ€™s and basically harass me to insist I stop using Twitch just because they have some political disagreements with Twitch. Or when Iโ€™ve had other idealists annoy me in DMโ€™s because they didnโ€™t like a hashtag I used. We should have comtrol over DMโ€™s period

Claudius

@mastodonmigration
I disagree. Moderation of a huge instance is a different game than moderation on a small instance. And the users/mods ratio on m.s is bad.

/cc @jwildeboer

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