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We should not be optimising Mastodon so it can handle more people per server. We should be optimising Mastodon so it incentivises more serves with fewer people.
(And if you take that line of thinking to its logical conclusion, you arrive at the idea behind the Small Web: https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/)
Food for thought: The bigger mastodon.social gets, the less successful the #fediverse is.
Sadly, the fundamental design of Mastodon mirrors the design of Big Tech (a server architecture that can support hundreds of thousands of “users”) and thus inherits its success criteria.
I feel it’s time we at least started thinking about what the web would look like if we all had our own place on it and what it would take to get there from here.
@aral It's not ideal and doesn't fulfil the small web goals I'd like to see achieved but I am trying to set up a personal mastodon server at least. It's a start. Even if we eventually ditch mastodon, at least it's part of... I think you've described it as "decentralising yourself"
@aral The experience of trying to set up a personal mastodon server and trying to explain small web ideas to others makes it clear to me how important it is that small web eventually "just works". If only you, Laura and others could skip to that step! I believe this is a worthwhile journey you're on though
@GeneticJen I’d love nothing more than to be able to skip to that step. And we’re not a million miles away… but I’m still working on infrastructure :)
(I also wish it was just about writing lines of code. It’s not. It’s about attempting to make it sustainable both in the current environment and in the one we want to move towards, about trying to use bits and pieces of what exists to build a bridge towards where we want to be… and about sharing every brick so others can build other bridges.)
@GeneticJen (Also, thank you… “I believe this is a worthwhile journey you’re on” is the best compliment ever. And it’s definitely a journey.) :)