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2023-05-01, 15:48

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Originally Posted by 709 View Post
Sure, but as soon as you realize that all your friends are getting their hair done at, say, .social salon, you try to join up with them and... WHAT? They're not accepting any new members at this time? Fuck. This.
Yeah, but does it matter? So they're at fancyHairdo.social, but you instead join mastodon.social. You can still follow them just fine, unless mastodon.social has defederated from that instance (which is unlikely). And odds are they're on mastodon.social as well.

Which, yes, kind of makes decentralization less useful, so people are encouraged to move to a different instance sooner or later. But I don't see how Bluesky solves this better. My cursory understanding is that they handwave the topic away and really just use decentralization as a form of load-balancing.

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Originally Posted by 709 View Post
The whole instance thing is a barrier.
I don't disagree. I just find it a tad overblown.
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