Post B0UJCF8ECWCdfvPHYO by richpuchalsky@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #B0UJCE02PU3cAEZE9I by richpuchalsky@mastodon.social
2025-11-21T16:45:30Z
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The FediTips, FediGarden or whatever person is posting diatribes about there being too many people on mastodon.social again. These stand as an annoying illustration of Fedi nagging.People wouldn't stay on mastodon.social if smaller sites weren't so predictably bad in so many recurring ways. Do you want to become involved in your site owner's Fedi drama or burnout? Then go to a smaller site.
(DIR) Post #B0UJCF8ECWCdfvPHYO by richpuchalsky@mastodon.social
2025-11-21T16:48:15Z
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And in the discussion on these posts, there are always the people who are so surprised that other people think it's very bad that their posts don't get moved over to a new server when they move. The surprised people say that for *their* posts they consider them to be ephemeral or delete them after a month or whatever.People can espouse decentralization for a social medium and not even think that maybe people use it for different things.
(DIR) Post #B0UJCGJbngttLVjsvo by richpuchalsky@mastodon.social
2025-11-21T16:51:42Z
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I've posted this too many times in this context, but I published a long poem on Fedi (in alt text). Context and form means something to artists! It's not quite the same published some different way. Some poems are designed to be ephemeral (for instance, I wrote one, edited it, read it once and tore it up on the spot) but this one is not and I do not want it to delete whenever the site owner gets tired of keeping the site up.
(DIR) Post #B0UJCHXpEJrn9tOkjI by richpuchalsky@mastodon.social
2025-11-21T16:54:37Z
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I understand that it will "delete" when the entire Mastodon network goes down, and it inevitalby will some time, but that is different. It was made in its form to live with the platform it's on.Other people -- of course -- want their social media interactions as a long-standing record of what they were thinking, writing, and conversing about. For instance I had a conversation with David Graeber on Twitter that was very difficult to look up.
(DIR) Post #B0UJCIIcQLITV1I7fM by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-11-22T01:09:20Z
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(1/2)@richpuchalsky> when the entire Mastodon network goes down, and it inevitably willIf the whole net goes down, or the whole Domain Name System. Otherwise, why would it?To your point about the durability of your poem on mastodon.social, of every part of the network were to go down except that service, your poem would be unaffected. But if the opposite were to happen (which it could) the fediverse would route around the hole and carry on, but your poem would be gone.
(DIR) Post #B0UJCN76Wa3cQkwUue by richpuchalsky@mastodon.social
2025-11-21T17:10:36Z
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I'm sure that there are all sorts of other reasons involving things that I would never think of because they are not my reasons. That's part of having a social network with *actually different people* on it./fin
(DIR) Post #B0UJk2uu7cx3dZIEme by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-11-22T01:15:31Z
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(2/2)As FarceBook, Xitter, YouTub, dReddit and others demonstrate, over and over again, picking the largest platform is no guarantee of the longevity of any given post.Fedi.Tips is right that big services make tempting targets for takeover by enshittifiers (*cough* Mastodon Inc now under US jurisdiction *cough*). You're right that not all smaller services are better, for sure. But there are plenty that are much better managed than mastodon.social and other giants.
(DIR) Post #B0UPW830qfspDkphC4 by richpuchalsky@mastodon.social
2025-11-22T02:20:11Z
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@strypey I doubt that Mastiodon is going to last ten years. People are working on a better protocol that allows some combination of Mastodon's "you don't need to run a whole copy of the feed" and Bluesky's "you can actually take your posts with you when you move."
(DIR) Post #B0WGV7FHpnaHAkw5OC by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-11-22T23:48:36Z
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(1/2)@richpuchalsky> People are working on a better protocolI'm sure they are. Whether anyone outside their own circle uses it is another question. Look at the history of Tent or Zot/ Nomad.Anyway this is orthogonal to the question of whether Mastodon the software will survive, or whether mastodon.social will keep hosting your poem. If this protocol becomes the new standard, existing fediverse software like Mastodon will implement it. As they did when OStatus was displaced by ActivityPub.
(DIR) Post #B0WGpqkENarS4qIRWa by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-11-22T23:52:22Z
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(2/2)Another change in the dominant protocol is no threat to the existence of the fediverse in general, nor to Mastodon in particular. Been there, that.Perhaps it might lead to Mastodon being replaced as the most popular software. Which would lead to fewer donations, and potentially a funding crisis for mastodon.social.So your own argument here undermines the original claim that m.s is the best place to host posts long term. Does it not?