Post APLAVmwrBe2jISla0e by ygalanter@raccoon.place
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 (DIR) Post #APLAVlxWrezEEG4bQ0 by joshtpm@mastodon.social
       2022-11-06T21:27:52Z
       
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       It's weird. CounterSocial has much more nimble servers, response time, but Mastodon seems to be the one that's pulling people over. Of course the latter cld be driving the former. But I have some skepticism whether a a decentralized framework can handle a rush of new people.
       
 (DIR) Post #APLAVmYOeaTe4bK2sq by mollyjongfast@journa.host
       2022-11-06T21:29:10Z
       
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       @joshtpm not to be purely superficial but CounterSocial looks odd
       
 (DIR) Post #APLAVmwrBe2jISla0e by ygalanter@raccoon.place
       2022-11-06T21:33:43Z
       
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       @mollyjongfast @joshtpm CounterSocial might be fine, but it's disconnected from the rest of the Fediverse. It's an island.
       
 (DIR) Post #APMeI1iye0YWqwaX68 by bstacey@icosahedron.website
       2022-11-06T22:09:13Z
       
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       @mollyjongfast @joshtpm There's some weird history to it, like (if I recall correctly) their banning signups from Russia and other countries in the name of "security", which other people around the fediverse took as hostile to marginalized people and dissident groups within those countries. This generated some drama and bad blood, with a fair number of Masto communities deciding they wouldn't have anything to do with CounterSocial.
       
 (DIR) Post #APMeI2DonLE4Ob1AAa by bstacey@icosahedron.website
       2022-11-06T22:19:15Z
       
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       @mollyjongfast @joshtpm Masto and the wider fediverse have had spikes of new arrivals before. Basically every time Zuckbook or Hellbird did something foolish, or announced that they were about to do something foolish, we'd get an influx. Some of the activity would die down after a while, as people decided the place just wasn't for them, but the level never quite went back to what it was before.(The fediverse is largely but not wholly Mastodon. Servers can be established using other software, too, and they all inter-operate by virtue of sharing a common communication protocol.)
       
 (DIR) Post #APMeI6S9413xWBkf3Y by bstacey@icosahedron.website
       2022-11-06T22:24:25Z
       
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       @mollyjongfast @joshtpm This migration *feels* bigger and different --- more wide-ranging, more widely advertised --- than the ones that came before. But I think the old-timers are handling it in much the same way as the previous spikes: "Well, time to upgrade the server rental and explain the oat meme again."(Oat puns were huge for a while. Before the days of oats, there was the time of giving pineapples.)