There are many good well-run instances that have been around for years, here is a small human-curated selection: https://fedi.garden/servers-sorted-by-founding-year

Same, although I don't use the other 2 all that much. I only check mentions and my home timeline. I don't see any offensive stuff at all.

What I like about Mastodon.social is that it's international, multi-lingual, and there's no dominating nationality. A global village.

Also, I see several instances struggle to keep up. Some, successful initially, gave up. Understandably so. Volunteer work should be fun and rewarding, not a fight.

Still my primary account, but I added two more, especially after Musk bought Twitter.

Yeah. Some of the best-run servers already do this, they deliberately close signups when they feel they are at the limits of what they can moderate and keep sustainable.

The solution is easy but pretty hardcore: Cap new accounts on the largest servers.

- Activity by admin on servers to give time / engage / push / develop their ppl.

Not good enough just to provide space & do #caturday pics
(although it's nice, not that mostly or only - real measurable human listening / development)

- Accepting imperfection / doubt + using for more forward-thinking #TRUST / #LOVE.

The manual 2-way work of deciding who is really bad - nobody is perfect but more have to work with all levels.

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I get that's the theory, but in practice it hasn't worked out like that

Mastodon.social has become an increasing percentage of the Fediverse since it was placed as a "default" server on the official Mastodon app. If mastodon.social keeps growing it will put the network in danger.

I'm guessing new people are reluctant to move once they've signed up, so to protect the network it would be better to have them sign up on other servers?

no. those were initial implementations limitations. the ecosystem has changed a lot since that propaganda from more than a year ago

I thought the original idea was to have a bottleneck between servers and users, did they change any of that?

I mean "aggregating services" of course, not bottleneck-gatekeeping-thing.

I see Mastodon.social as the mainland from which to start your journey. Then you island hop (follow lots of different accounts on different servers) discover where you would like to put down roots, and move.

your metaphor was too wrong im afraid

That's one of many reasons why it's a bad idea to sign up on a supergiant server like mastodon.social, and much better to sign up on a different server. You can find lots of good reliable human-curated servers at https://fedi.garden and https://joinmastodon.org/servers

Great, now you are messing up my metaphor.

I can already see it getting all hot and bothered...

that is wildly incorrect, and I say this as someone who has implemented both activitypub and atproto.

Knowing how fedi works is knowing trains (cmon is fedi. Also joke about getting railed).

atproto is boats. boats dont get railed (I promised a joke about getting railed).

reddwarf is working, and wafrn instances are working fine. blacksky is working.

"Bluesky uses the so-called Cthulhu infrastructure pattern, meaning 'many tentacles but only one head'.
Naturally, that head is both the bottleneck and the weak point of the overall system."

I dont want to be an annoying prick, but wafrn servers do have atproto support and we are not affected by the outage

@classicabambi