mastodon.ar.al is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
This is my personal fediverse server.

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@louis@emacs.ch Sadly, Eugen has allowed himself (and mastodon.social) to become a centre. Mastodon was already built on a Big Web stack, inheriting its scaling characteristics and inherent success criteria so the only hope was for social pressure to keep instances small. And that’s clearly not happening. Instead he’s going for vertical scale. And, sadly, Eugen’s going to discover the hard way (and very soon) that a German not-for-profit cannot compete with Silicon Valley on that.

@louis@emacs.ch Mastodon.social will be dethroned as the largest instance within roughly a year (and almost overnight) by Tumblr or Mozilla or some other Silicon Valley entrant. At that point Eugen will have zero recourse but to accept it because he’s already made giant instances socially acceptable. In time, he’ll likely be brought into the fold as Tim Berners-Lee was by the Big Web and maybe eventually launch an initiative to Reclaim the Fediverse. It’s not like we haven’t seen this before.

If that happens, let it be. The ‘verse needs to grow, if it isn’t mastodon.social, well let’s say not even Mastodon for that matter but some other app on the ‘verse, the better for it.

Mastodon hosted on mastodon.socialMastodonThe original server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit
Aral Balkan

@arinbasu1 Ideally, we’d just have one instance and it would be run by Google. Hey, a girl can dream…

Goodness Aral! Your wish may just be granted, 🤔

@aral @arinbasu1 I don't get it... How can Eugen not see the problem of having one super node in a decentralized network, when he's the one that brought it up in a first place ? What's his stance on this ?

@emon Well, for a few more days he’s going to be in charge of that super node. And then Mark is.

🤷‍♂️

@arinbasu1