hypothesis: if too many early users sign up on mastodon.social instead of other instances, federation will end up becoming a second-class feature. (imagine what email today would look like if gmail had existed in the 90s.)
other instances need to be able to compete with mastodon.social for growth, or https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/177 should be implemented.
@bcrypt Federation will never be 2nd class feature for me.
@Gargron @bcrypt Even financially, if anything, if no one else builds something competitive in fedispace, Eugen is incentivized to build parallel instances tailoring to a few different community styles, each with their own Patreon. I'd bet this would be more profitable than forcing everyone to stay on M.soc
@five @Gargron @bcrypt I'm so excited about all of this. Watching all of this unfolds is amazing by itself. Considering where all of this could go is ... https://maly.io/media/7jyt-RTuT-wUMRVdlM8