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1. ar.al🌻 (aral)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Nov-2022 09:51:08 UTC ar.al🌻

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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/)

   #decentralisation #federation #fediverse #SmallWeb

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   • ar.al🌻 (aral)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Nov-2022 10:01:58 UTC ar.al🌻

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     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.

     #decentralisation #centralisation #fediverse #SmallWeb

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