@crossgolf_rebel @jaz @josh I won't go into the pluses and minuses of small vs. large instances. I'm thinking exclusively about what kind of map would be more effective in showing the realities of the fediverse to the outside world.

And, to the outside world, a map where every other instance people find is a self-hosted one, will be ignored because "bah, there's nobody there".

That's how they think. And we won't change how they think unless we show them that "actually, there IS people there."

@crossgolf_rebel @jaz @josh And that's fine, but woudn't it be more accurate in terms of ecosystem portrait to prioritize largeish instances instead of ignoring them while adding tons of single-user self-hosted stuff? I mean, those are also part of the ecosystem, but they inflate the number of instances for a pretty low overall quantity of users.

@jaz @crossgolf_rebel @josh That's quite likely, and if so it paints a misleading picture of the whole ecosystem. To establish how european something is, ownership is more important than membership and way more important than hosting location, I think.

Otherwise would be a bit like saying something is American because it uses Cloudflare.

Also, the map is incomplete. Where's venera.social, for instance? Nowhere to be seen. (It's a German Friendica instance)

@crossgolf_rebel @jaz @josh That map is... weird.

Masto.pt is in... Dunkerk?!

Outmo.de is in... the Azores?!

@FediTips Oh. OK. It wasn't like that when I checked it back when I joined the bridge; you'd just need to unfollow the account and bridging stopped, or at least they said so. I guess they found out the process was flawed and decided to go for a more radical and bullet-proof alternative? Dunno.

So yeah. Sorry. My bad.

@FediTips But to stop bridging people just need to unfollow the bridge account. They don't have to block anything.

@leeloo @virtuous_sloth @FediTips Sorry, but that's just silly.

People are here on the fediverse, on a network that is inherently unsafe (as all are). Here, bad actors only need to lay low to grab all the information they want from people, as only when they reveal themselves blocking can happen.

And they worry with the tiny little probability of a bug sending their data elsewhere?

Come on. Be real.

Risk exists right here, right now. People should really be well aware of that.

@leeloo @virtuous_sloth @FediTips What makes you think I'm within ICE's reach?

@virtuous_sloth @FediTips Yes, I know about that. But it was a bug, not a feature. Bugs happen. And it's been fixed.

@FediTips There isn't any bridging to bluesky unless you actually follow the bridge account. Blocking to avoid bridging is totally useless.