Man, it feels like you guys haven’t spoken to a real human in decades…
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?
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
Let me see how you get instance admins to agree on what to defederate.
SeekPie@lemm.ee 21 hours ago
Maybe a vote of 75% minimum would be good?
JaymesRS@literature.cafe 2 days ago
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 ad 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.
R3D4CT3D@midwest.social 2 days ago
i like the idea of a server choice virtually invisible feature!