hypothesis: if too many early users sign up on mastodon.social instead of other instances, federation will end up becoming a second-class feature. (imagine what email today would look like if gmail had existed in the 90s.)
other instances need to be able to compete with mastodon.social for growth, or https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/177 should be implemented.
@bcrypt Federation will never be 2nd class feature for me.
@Gargron @bcrypt I think that "too many users" is subjective (apart from scaling). If anyone thinks there are too many users around here, or too many douches, they can either move one, or run their own instance. This way, putting more pressure on any system, could help to balance the power over the federation as a whole.
Thoughts?
@tim @Gargron i am reminded of https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-because-it-has-all-of-yours as an example of too-many-users-on-one-node-of-a-supposedly-federated-system
@sarahjeong @Gargron @tim @bcrypt @rich_harris mentioned a ticket about this over on the bird site: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/177
@knowtheory @sarahjeong @gargron @bcrypt @tim @rich_harris ah word, the "account redirect" seems like it would solve a lot of problems.
@schlink @rich_harris @tim @bcrypt @Gargron @sarahjeong Heh. There are a lot of distributed computing problems hiding in here. I haven't caught up w/ the issues well enough to have an opinion about how scared i should be yet :D
@tim @schlink @rich_harris @bcrypt @Gargron @sarahjeong Wait, is this saying that the CAP theorem is newspeak? :D
@knowtheory @rich_harris @bcrypt @Gargron @sarahjeong
Issues were next on my to-do list, to study. Thanks for the shortcut! :)