@feditips What is your take on "one profile"-Mastodon Servers? How does the Fediverse scale with many very small servers? Is there an optimum, say for how 100 Mio users should be distributed on how many servers?

@feditips I keep meaning to move. I just haven't yet. I will try to remember this weekend.

@feditips :(

@feditips Personally, I don’t get error messages on my server and moving to a new server feels like a chore, but that’s me.

Am I allowed to keep my server if I don’t have this issue already or should I partake moving?

@feditips indeed. They really should have capped the number of users, and better directed them to other instances. It seems like growth at the expense of vision.

@feditips I'd move to another instance for sure, just that there's so many issues and caveats that come with moving that I'm honestly put off the idea. Portability remains a problem for Mastodon and it's hard to encourage moving when doing so is like leaving several boxes of your possessions at your old place.

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If you are fine with german language, you can follow mastodon.social statistics here: @mastodon_social

More statistics on https://www.mastodonien.de (in German).

@feditips@mstdn.social Also if you're looking for a new instance, why not check out some other fediverse services with other interfaces and possibilities :)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse#Software

@feditips Is there a politics instance? Many thanks in advance

@feditips Tell 'em about regional servers.

@feditips @Mastodon should consider maintaining a list of volunteer instances with demonstrable stability and moderation practices. These instances should be rotated as the "default" instances as necessary on the website and the app.

I'm not sure how this works from a technical standpoint but it seems like it would solve the problem of giant default instances.

@feditips what server do you suggest for general interest folks?

@feditips I question whether you should be editorializing from the Fedi.tips account. Many people have come to rely on you for understanding how to use mastodon (and the fediverse generally), and will assume you're speaking in some official capacity.

But what you're doing is advocating for a particular view of the fediverse — which I consider alarmist and, at the very least, open to debate. There's no objective standard by which a server can be declared "too large." Why stoke this conflict?

@feditips if you're in Scotland, come to mastodon.scot. @trumpet does a good job!

@feditips another good tool is instances.social

Just to clarify, I am not suggesting signing up on a random server with no track record.

The server lists I linked to have very specific requirements to be listed (https://joinmastodon.org/covenant and https://fedi.garden/about-this-site/).

Also, many of these servers have been going for years without problems. You can browse the servers on fedi.garden listed by year of foundation:

https://fedi.garden/servers-sorted-by-founding-year/

@feditips If anyone here wants to move, Orchard’s an open option for anyone that wants a chill, general instance. Find it on https://fedi.garden

@feditips if this is the case, then why is mastodon.social still allowing sign-ups? Don’t they run other instances as well? What about removing the biggest servers from the recommended list? There’s got to be more solutions than just asking people to move to a new server.

@feditips No surprise as one server (mastodon.social) would become the dominant server. Expect it will get larger as more people sign up and as smaller servers become too expensive to operate and consolidate. Given time expect network eventually to become one dominant server with a few large ones and smattering of smaller ones, but the distributed system will disappear. Wait for it. JMO

@feditips In point 7, it is recommended not to delete the old account in order to redirect users to the new one. Does this play a significant role for the server load?

@feditips shoutout from no2nd.earth. Ok we ARE small 😊

@feditips Ack. I actually just helped a non-tech savvy friend sign up for Mastodon (yay!) and suggested they use the same server I'm on, but the set-up process suggested mastodon.social, so they wanted and did end up using that one, because it was the "official" recommendation. 😕

OK, I get that; but my interests are very broad:

• web design/development
• tech
• politics
• science
• art
• photography
• news/current affairs

Which is why I opted for a 'generalist' server.

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@feditips I joined mastodon.social because it was the instance suggested in the app when I signed up. Now I just migrated my tiny account to another server.
🏘🦣<<<🏙
Downsides: public profile info has to be reentered.
Upsides: it's a straightforward process that allows to keep bookmarks, followers, follows, blocks and mutes lists.

@feditips > threatens the long term safety of the whole Fediverse

Please stop with this nonsense.

@feditips Urrggh. I know I've got to do this at some point but it smacks of admin.

@feditips Oh wow. Semi-common errors and 15-20% of all Mastodon users? I had no idea things were that bad!

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This is the correct approach. Move.

The Sidekiq queues can build up quickly on a large instance, and they can get stuck.

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Maybe it's a silly nitpick nowadays, but I wish account age could be migrated as well.