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Dear @Gargron,

Please reevaluate your decision to incentivise centralisation on mastodon.social in the official app.

This is the sort of design a VC-funded startup would implement, not a non-profit acting in the interests of a healthy commons.

I’m sure you don’t want mastodon.social to become mini-Twitter and you don’t want to become mini-Musk.

That’s not how we win this.

More instances, not larger instances is the key.

mastodon.ar.al/@feditips@mstdn

@aral The issue here is the _instance_ model.

In distributed systems like GNUnet or IPFS, every node entering the network empowers the whole system.
Node leaving the network does not disturb the consistency of network.

@smokku Oh, I know that, that’s why I’m working on the Small Web and not the fediverse. But the fediverse is a good stop-gap for now between Big Web and that. The longer it remains so, the better for those of us building the types of networks you mention.

Aral Balkan

@smokku PS. IPFS is tied to Protocol Labs which is tied to VC and all that crap. But yes, peer networks.

@aral @smokku IPFS also seems badly designed in that it appears like it tries to connect to every peer on the network until it crashes domestic routers. For promiscuous content addressable distribution, one might as well build on libtorrent/webtorrent. Not entirely sure how IPFS got so big when better tech already existed. Probably the VC thing.