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Richard Grant | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @796af16b I question whether you should be editorializing from the Fedi.tips account. Many people have come to rely on you for understanding how to use mastodon (and the fediverse generally), and will assume you're speaking in some official capacity.

But what you're doing is advocating for a particular view of the fediverse — which I consider alarmist and, at the very least, open to debate. There's no objective standard by which a server can be declared "too large." Why stoke this conflict?
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Richard Grant | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @796af16b If you *are* going to push people toward smaller servers, at least acknowledge some of the problems that may arise. 

The admin may get overwhelmed, depressed, or fed up — and just quit, with minimal notice. The server then ceases to exist. This happens all the time.

The admins of small servers often feud with one another, and with larger servers, which leads to impulsive defederation, which messes up the user experience. There's no easy way to foresee which servers will be affected.
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96cfb05d | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @80e5a4ba 

"If you *are* going to push people toward smaller servers, at least acknowledge some of the problems that may arise. "

If you read the links I suggested people find servers from, they are all required to have at least two admins, give three months warning if they are closing down, take daily backups, moderate against specific kinds of hate speech etc.

I'm not recommending random servers but very specific lists.