Post B2id2QTLfMP9VyOexs by GlitchGhost@retro-gaiden.com
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 (DIR) Post #B2iciPsc9wEbsxfoYK by Oregon_Pacifist@retro-gaiden.com
       2026-01-27T14:34:22Z
       
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       I don’t know who needs to hear this, but the instance mastodon.social is 30% of the entire #Fediverse. If it ever goes down for any reason, a huge chunk of the Fediverse will go down.It defeats the purpose of having a fully decentralized network if most people pile into a single instance. :mastodon: #Activitypub #SocialMedia #Decentralization
       
 (DIR) Post #B2icwGqsWQFTwKT3bc by Judeau@mas.to
       2026-01-27T15:24:08Z
       
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       @Oregon_Pacifist I remember at one point they actually closed social to new sign ups to force people to join other instances. I feel like they need to do this again or switch the default signup server to something else for at least a time.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2icwIGnFYZYKzbGdc by Oregon_Pacifist@retro-gaiden.com
       2026-01-27T15:25:31Z
       
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       @Judeau Yeah that's not a bad idea. Too many people that migrate over from X and other sites think that mastodon.social IS the Mastodon platform. The concept of decentralization is completely foreign to them.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2icwJHtSx2xUh7ezY by Judeau@mas.to
       2026-01-27T16:23:05Z
       
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       @Oregon_Pacifist It's not terribly difficult to understand but It definitely takes a bit of education. It's part of what makes the Fediverse potentially so resilient and different from other services. I would argue that's more important now than ever.In the past I actually convinced a couple of people to sign up for Mastodon & attempted to explain the importance of choosing a different server but in the end they opted to just go with .social because it was the biggest. Education is hard. LOL
       
 (DIR) Post #B2icwK5WUQkHycLILg by GlitchGhost@retro-gaiden.com
       2026-01-27T18:40:46Z
       
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       @Judeau @Oregon_Pacifist yeah its like try to educate people who have used windows all their lives to use Linux and how its better but good luck trying to teach them that who can't grasp the idea
       
 (DIR) Post #B2id2PqM0LDFZ29WBU by e6a4fe53bdb13e67802a77ce878f6c4deff0d58df9d3142a333b92041aa9eba8@mostr.pub
       2026-01-27T14:56:39.000Z
       
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       It also causes issues when at an instance level, they decide to not federate with another instance, because basically 30% of the Fediverse decides to block you. On some level I get it, theres a lot of stuff on the Fediverse that really shouldn't see the light of day, but it does kind of work against the whole decentralized thing.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2id2QTLfMP9VyOexs by GlitchGhost@retro-gaiden.com
       2026-01-27T18:41:55Z
       
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       @e6a4fe53bdb13e67802a77ce878f6c4deff0d58df9d3142a333b92041aa9eba8 @Oregon_Pacifist your damn right on that man
       
 (DIR) Post #B2ikvKcznQyuzk2NMW by lina@eientei.org
       2026-01-27T20:10:19.145893Z
       
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       @Oregon_Pacifist it should go down
       
 (DIR) Post #B2ilGLDAp1XusyyeW0 by nach@detroitriotcity.com
       2026-01-27T20:14:03.960397Z
       
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       @Oregon_Pacifist hopefully it dies someday :korone_blessed:
       
 (DIR) Post #B2ioqxmrAyzooTp2Ke by h4890@alive.bar
       2026-01-27T20:54:21Z
       
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       @Oregon_Pacifist True... but another way to look at it, is that 70% will remain. Yet another way to look at it, is from the point of view of the fediblock list. How federated are things really when x percent are blocked at the instance level?
       
 (DIR) Post #B2m7sU3n9U5dnd3tNQ by dawgeth@retro.pizza
       2026-01-27T20:04:49Z
       
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       @Oregon_Pacifist Damn, they have 3,098,853 users (per https://instances.social/list/advanced) That's wild. I'm happy on my little 1300 users instance. I would imagine the best option, to re-iterate what others have said, would be - if they cared about decentralizing - would be shutting down the registrations over there and requiring new registrations to be elsewhere. I wonder what amount of those users are actually active vs. "I registered because Twitter sucks .. and then stopped logging in"
       
 (DIR) Post #B2m7sVO2DhsPuhXZZI by GlitchGhost@retro-gaiden.com
       2026-01-29T11:11:35Z
       
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       @dawgeth @Oregon_Pacifist
       
 (DIR) Post #B3O6rINCOy2DJeUC1Y by FreeinTX@poa.st
       2026-02-16T18:59:16.630246Z
       
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       @Oregon_Pacifist What would it mean if I saw a CACI employee show up to work in a Mastodon tee-shirt?