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Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

then you need to decide your instance

Just use mastodon.social

If you feel like you want to join a more specific community then you can

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LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
We both know that is not how this should work. If everybody joins the same instance, we’re basically right back where we started. We want people to be distributed among other instances.

If one instance has 97% of the userbase then they basically get to dictate the whole thing. What if mastodon.social ended up being hexbear or lemmygrad? Or some MAGA right wing instance?

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- lgsp@feddit.it ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  We both know that is not how this should work. If everybody joins the same instance
  
  But this doesn’t happen. Mastodon.social is far from 90%, and the former CEO made the choice of letting control go to an entity that is no-profit, I think it’s the right choice.
  
  The casual user joins mastodon.social (default highlighted choice). He can enjoy the Fediverse and discover its complexity with experience, not by understanding everything in advance.
  
  He can the move to another instance if he feels so, after undetstanding what this actually means
  
  The more advanced user probably already knows the instance thing, and maybe doesn’t even use the offical app
  
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- manxu@piefed.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I think it's the "basically" part in basically right back where we started that makes the difference. Even if 100% of Fediverse users were on a single instance, once that instance starts pulling Musk moves, the users can move somewhere else.
  
  Only if that instance defederates from everyone else do we get the Twitter situation again. Or, since that's actually what happened, Truth Social, which I think is just a slightly modified Mastodon instance with federation disabled/deactivated.
  
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