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When posting stats about the number of people (not “users”) joining the fediverse (not “Mastodon”), please also post about the number of instances.
If 400,000,000 people join BigTech.social tomorrow, that’s not a win. That’s how you recreate Twitter.
So let’s focus on what matters. Sure it‘s great that the fediverse is becoming more popular but the character of that popularity matters. How it scales matters. Avoiding corporate capture matters.
@aral A bigtech instance wouldn't be too bad though, it would promote the fediverse, which has long-term positive implications. Especially with migration being possible, and 3rd party integrations. If that specific big-tech would do even the slightest wrong, people would jump to other instances quickly.
@wraldpyk @aral The problem with free software maximalism is that the means and the end are often confused.
Do we want *everybody* to be on the fediverse rather than, well, somewhere else? Then massive-scale deployments and minimal friction will be needed.
Do we want to build meaningful connections on social media? Then we may be content with some people just not being here (folks mainly interested in following their favourite pop star can stay on Twitter) and a tolerable amount of friction.
@astrojuanlu @aral yeah it's a good discussion. I don't think a big instance can hurt fediverse too much, but it's not too benefitical either, at least in the short-term. I guess we'll see what happens
@astrojuanlu Ah, you apparently beat me to it. Sorry, only just saw your reply. Yeah, so what Juan said :)
@aral @astrojuanlu yeah that's a good point! I guess I'm too much focussed on the "happy path" I forgot about the not so happy one