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.
https://mastodon.ar.al/@feditips@mstdn.social/110233282943673558
@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.
@smokku PS. IPFS is tied to Protocol Labs which is tied to VC and all that crap. But yes, peer networks.