This was a good poll. Lots of interesting comments.

I'm a qualified yes. I love my home and my community in Montreal and my second home in Richmond the Eastern Townships, but I'm a settler on indigenous land, and we haven't figured out how that can be a just situation yet.

I'm also far from my parents and brothers in the San Francisco Bay Area, and my extended family in New Jersey.

@evan isn't that pertube?

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Who's "we"? I'm not paying for that! I don't even use it!

@evan I wonder what the e-mail market shares would look like by message traffic. E.g. I have an e-mail account from my broadband provider that probably would end up in the stats you quote, but that I never use. I don't even know its address.

@evan Yup. 100% this. It's inevitable that there will be massive servers that most people end up on. That doesn't mean others won't exist and be able to thrive.

My accountant uses Hotmail. 🤦‍♂️

@evan I believe the problem is not just that email is run on Gmail servers, but that Gmail takes up enough accounts that if you want to be a server communicating with all accounts, you have to play by their rules. Even if you don't host on Gmail, you will follow their commands. I think.

Either way, I believe the right "conspiracy theory" would be to accuse Gmail, Microsoft and Yahoo of oligopoly, and not just Gmail of monopoly.

I will say that some of the smartest people working on Mastodon and the fediverse right now are working on this very problem, and I'm pretty excited to see it become part of the stack.

@evan @w3c That's one hell of an endorsement.

@evan dang, net promoter score?

@evan This feels like it should be the first question in a very long survey where I am asked to write a paragraph about my response to each question 😅

@evan the polls are like an expected thing now. You can't stop.

@evan Its an option, even though it only works on cloudflare. The question is, how good are the data liberation option? If all data can be exported and I can drop it easily in a different mastodon server that I host later on, then this is cool.

@evan no, this is just shamelesd EEE. Support independent non-corporate projects like @mastohost instead!

@evan I’d use it as a backup solution or to test stuff but I believe you *need* the image bit, which is 5$ per month.

Very interesting! I am a qualified no.

First there's no single "federated timeline". It's a Mastodon feature that lets you eavesdrop on the conversations of other people on your instance.

As such, it's a place for discovery. It's explicitly stuff that you personally haven't subscribed to (yet). It's the feed of posts that aren't interesting to you.

Sorry, there was some confusion with the previous phrasing

OK, this is too many Strong no's.

I'm organizing SocialWebCamp 2023.

I just registered https://socialwebcamp.org/

#SocialWebCamp #LFG

@evan and poor people love hearing about how making everyone else poor will save the world

@evan Atlas continues to shrug

@evan and the solution is so easy, as it is simply the reverse: saving the world will make them more money.

@evan There's a ton of reposts. I ignore most of those as trash. Some people are out there begging to become big names here that were followed by thousands of fake followers on birdsite. I ignore them too.

@evan trying to. But currently I'm mostly just getting used to things.

@evan Yes please! I was just invited to join and betatest Post, and found that the content is mostly posted from Twitter or links to Twitter. Seriously, who needs that?

Please please please please please

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@evan IS THAT EVAN PRODROMOU?!?!?!?!?!!

@evan Why is there a limit to the number of people on a server? Could an instance not just scale up with hardware as it grows?

@evan Maybe we need some sort of community / techie speed dating or something, to get people connected up around issues and interests they care about.

@evan how much does it run one?

@evan You thinking for personal usage here or shared?

@evan They should have considered OStatus for Wordpress out of the box back at the very beginning of the project, I'd say.

Same for @bradfitz's Livejournal engine.

If they did, the history of the Internet might have been completely different.

@evan @debirdify #twitterisdead

@evan @debirdify The system that does the backups is distinct from the servers handling normal user traffic. If you want your archive get it while you can.

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This might help the #newcomers
https://alirezahayati.com/2022/11/09/how-does-fediverse-work/#more-5367