Hachyderm is the El Paso of the Fediverse

[joncounts@mastodon.nz]

@ricci Interesting. That works too, although I had to look up Brooklyn, NZ I see it's a suburb of Wellington city. (I need to spend more time exploring Wellington.)

[drmorr@hachyderm.io]

@ricci Hey @hachyderm did you see this

[drangnon@hachyderm.io]

RE: https://discuss.systems/@ricci/116022130481291531

I could swear I have seen multiple accounts from multiple servers attack #hachyderm over the last two years for being so goddamn big, like mastodon.social

[damonwakes@mastodon.sdf.org]

@ricci This sounds neat, but it seems to have a very funny idea of what "global" means.

[ricci@discuss.systems]

@DamonWakes hmmm... I assume this is after doing multiple searches, or is it on initial page load? Look like something isn't get cleared out properly

[emily_s@mastodon.me.uk]

@ricci This is a pretty cool way to think about things. Really interesting thank you.

I appreciate the option for not scaling things. Knowing mastodon.social is equivalent to the entire population of Preston is fascinating.

[damonwakes@mastodon.sdf.org]

@ricci It's just done it first try on a fresh start in Firefox Focus (which shouldn't preserve anything between sessions). Any chance it's because I'm searching for mastodon.sdf.org?

[ricci@discuss.systems]

@emily_s yeah that was how I originally built it, but it ended up with a lot of cities that are probably not as globally well known so I decided to make the scaling the default

[ricci@discuss.systems]

@DamonWakes hmm, I've tried searching for the same server and I'm getting more global results (a city in Japan) so I'm not sure what's going on here. I did have some bugs related to searching earlier so it seems quite possible I didn't squash them all

[aspensmonster@tenforward.social]

@ricci I live in Iraan (Texas, US).

[damonwakes@mastodon.sdf.org]

@ricci Please do let me know if you figure it out! I'd be keen to have another poke around. It is interesting to see the scale of the servers compared this way.

[lukyan@lukyan.eu]

@ricci This is cool. I see the size difference as in mapping mastodon.social to the biggest city in the country I'm in maps what I think as big servers to what I wouldn't consider big enough to be a city, like districts of other cities. Both fedi and the country look too centralized, with software being optimized for huge instances and the central administration assuming everyone lives in the "default city".

(I've also learned the non-fedi fact that there is a city with the population of 307 people, less than a large apartment building.)

[hachyderm@hachyderm.io]

@drmorr @ricci

Oh how cool!

[ljrk@todon.eu]

@ricci TIL pixelfed is actually big o.O

[ricci@discuss.systems]

@lukyan there are so so many small ones, the list I'm using cuts off at 500 to avoid being too gigantic

[ricci@discuss.systems]

@draNgNon it's all relative, I guess, I'm sure there are people for who El Paso is the Big City too

[dave@alvarado.social]

@jadp @ricci great, now I have to figure out how to brand my instance as a meta-reality bubble in the quantum foam.

I hope there's a setting for that.

[dave@alvarado.social]

@ljrk @ricci yeah. .social is where the Twitter uses ran to, pixelfed is where the Instagram users went to. If there's ever a fedi equivalent to Facebook, that will also be massive.

[ricci@discuss.systems]

@dave @ljrk There is, Friendica, however, it has not taken off in the same way - I don't know why since I haven't used it

[dave@alvarado.social]

@ricci @ljrk hmm, I wonder if it's either not actually a good substitute, or if Boomers generally aren't trying to flee big tech.