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Fediverse and Round-Robins (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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https://spreadmastodon.org/utilities/round-robin

Mastodon wants to make sign-ups easier and direct new registrations automatically to 4 chosen instances in round-robin mode. These instances have to fulfill certain criteria to be eligible, but in any case one them will move out of rotation per year.

I think it is a good concept to actually avoid a single instance dominating everything else and over multiple years the rotation should avoid too strong clustering and makes usability much simpler.

Would this be something you would look for in lemmy as well in the long-term? Or would you trade the benefit of a concious decision at the potential cost of alienating people who just want to get the easiest way, which could happen to be a centralized big tech?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wouldn't have a problem with round robin if you could still manually choose an instance, had the ability to move your account, and the servers were vetted and in good standing.

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

Of course you can sign-up where you want to. This should only act as a front landing page for Mastodon.