Re:Mastodon is not a good social network
by BlueTemplar on Thursday December 22, 2022 @12:27AM
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Looks like compliance might actually solve this ? We already have laws that kick in over a certain amount of users. Seems to be a pretty big incentive for instances to limit the number of users to accept, which would result in a lot of mid-sized instances, rather than your usual power law distribution ?
Re:Mastodon is not a good social network
by fleddr on Thursday December 22, 2022 @03:35PM
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Interesting. What is the cap size?
Re:Mastodon is not a good social network
by BlueTemplar on Friday December 23, 2022 @10:58PM
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Seems to be in 3 steps :
- older than 3 years or more than 10M€/year of revenue
- 5 million unique visitors per month
He figured this is due to not being listed properly on some of the onboarding pages. He had tried to get on it, but failed. He then continued to collect some stats on all instances (which is difficult) and came to the conclusion that 90% of Mastodon instances have < 10 users, and most are closed/private.
If true, then yes...users will flock to a small group of large instances. Which makes sense, you want to go to where the most people are, it's the entire point of a social network.
If exponential growth continues (which I doubt), it will lead to existential problems. In costs, moderation, compliance, etc.