Mastodon.social has no advantages at all over any other server.

Mastodon.social has no advantages at all over any other server. It has no special status or special privileges, it uses exactly the same software as other Mastodon servers.

In fact I'd strongly advise people *NOT* to sign up on mastodon.social, here are the reasons why: https://fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-idea-to-join-a-big-server

TL:DR - It's far far too big, it's putting the entire decentralised nature of the Fediverse in danger.

If you want help choosing a good reliable server, have a look at https://fedi.garden

#FediTips

Mastodon.social has no advantages at all over any other server. It has no special status or special privileges, it uses exactly the same software as other Mastodon servers.

In fact I'd strongly advise people *NOT* to sign up on mastodon.social, here are the reasons why: https://fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-idea-to-join-a-big-server

TL:DR - It's far far too big, it's putting the entire decentralised nature of the Fediverse in danger.

If you want help choosing a good reliable server, have a look at https://fedi.garden

#FediTips

Mastodon.social has no advantages at all over any other server. It has no special status or special privileges, it uses exactly the same software as other Mastodon servers.

In fact I'd strongly advise people *NOT* to sign up on mastodon.social, here are the reasons why: https://fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-idea-to-join-a-big-server

TL:DR - It's far far too big, it's putting the entire decentralised nature of the Fediverse in danger.

If you want help choosing a good reliable server, have a look at https://fedi.garden

#FediTips

@LappenjammerDieZweite

Unfortunately this is a risk with any online service, even the largest (e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/18/myspace-loses-all-content-uploaded-before-2016 )

What was the process by which you chose OpenBiblio by the way? I'm wondering if there's some way to improve the listing site. I don't think I've listed them on Fedi.Garden, were they on JoinMastodon? If they were listed on either site, they should have had daily backups to avoid this scenario.

Mastodon.social has no advantages at all over any other server. It has no special status or special privileges, it uses exactly the same software as other Mastodon servers.

In fact I'd strongly advise people *NOT* to sign up on mastodon.social, here are the reasons why: https://fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-idea-to-join-a-big-server

TL:DR - It's far far too big, it's putting the entire decentralised nature of the Fediverse in danger.

If you want help choosing a good reliable server, have a look at https://fedi.garden

#FediTips

Mastodon.social has no advantages at all over any other server. It has no special status or special privileges, it uses exactly the same software as other Mastodon servers.

In fact I'd strongly advise people *NOT* to sign up on mastodon.social, here are the reasons why: https://fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-idea-to-join-a-big-server

TL:DR - It's far far too big, it's putting the entire decentralised nature of the Fediverse in danger.

If you want help choosing a good reliable server, have a look at https://fedi.garden

#FediTips

@FediTips
Thanks for the information! I just moved from mastodon.social to muenchen.social.

Thanks to your helpful instructions everything went well

@FediTips Though you can't easily move to another instance if that instance has 'suspend' on mastodon.social ... and not all instances seem to publish their suspend/silence lists ...

@FediTips @LappenjammerDieZweite It's possible to avoid it on ATproto, but it takes some extra steps. Mainly adding a rotation key for adversarial migration. Non-Bluesky platforms, relays, and PDSes would need to move to one of the major PLC mirrors if the collapse was big enough.

AP might become the same if the recent initiative to advance ActivityPods and C2S takes off.

@FediTips I was deciding between mastodon.social and mastodon.plus. ended up choosing mastodon social. I'm happy with my decision, although I am still relatively new here. I will say having all those different servers is confusing for new people. I remember when Mastodon first started, I didn't join because it was so confusing. That's definitely off-putting for new people. Fediverse and the concept of it is still confusing for me but I am trying to learn it.

@FediTips I am on mastodon.social but also on two other Mastodons and another #Fedi site. I seldom post on the big one. Does #FediTips want me to change anything?

@imbrium_photography

Most instances don't suspend mastodon.social, but if they do the workaround is to move to a third server that federates with both, then from the third server to the one you want.

@Stomata Sharkey? Image of flashes by....

But this sounds great., now I've got to learn about instances and see if mastodon.nl is one. Can you answer this @support ?

@FediTips

@FediTips

You say that you have over 200,000 followers and is on a single user server.

What kind of server do you have? I mean, what kind of RAM and storage, if these are the relevant specs?

@MichelPatrice

I use the managed hosting service @mastohost

They do all the techy stuff so they would know the specs. I assume I'm on some kind of shared server with other instances.

@Kye @LappenjammerDieZweite

You can't avoid this risk on any online platform, anything online could shut down or be misconfigured.

Also, ATProto isn't decentralised: https://plus.flux.community/p/banning-controversy-reveals-blueskys

@FediTips @LappenjammerDieZweite Has nothing to do with what I said. Aside from being wrong.

@Kye

If it's not decentralised then there's no meaningful migration.

@FediTips I'm not interested in your weird anti-Bluesky tangent. Demonstrate you read and understood literally anything I actually said or go away.

@Kye

Um... you're the one replying to my thread?

Kind of weird to reply to someone and tell them to go away?