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Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky (aidanraymond.medium.com)

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

Hey... that just gave me a small idea... what if we made a "flock" or "herd" of Mastodon servers? The group of servers would all federate with each other, have the same block and allow lists, moderation policy and teams spread throughout them.

When you make an account you can be assigned a random instance name within the flock. If your instance goes down you could still possibly log in using other servers? Main benefit would be spreading server costs and maintenance effort and de-centralized operating, but still keep a centralized feel to it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

If they have the same people running all of them, how is that different from running a single mastodon server in kubernetes, so that it doesn't get overloaded?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

When you make an account

Where?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

Let me see how you get instance admins to agree on what to defederate.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Honestly that’s probably the best sort of solution. A group that has some minimum standards of moderation and maintenance/upgrade management plan and just evenly distribute the load as people arrive.

Then as a second phase make it easy to transfer, that way at the point the user gets comfortable they can easily swap to a better* “home” for those that care, for those that don’t, make the server choice be virtually invisible.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

i like the idea of a server choice virtually invisible feature!