Coyote on Nostr: Purple Cat with a PC-98 (and X68K) I think the ideal topology for fedi would be small ...
Purple Cat with a PC-98 (and X68K) (npub1f8l…7frq) I think the ideal topology for fedi would be small instances of about a dozen users in total who are all a part of the same friend group. Have the most technically apt person set up a VPS or a home lab with fediverse software on it, and have the angle donor or everyone pitch in for the domain / hosting fees. Unless your friends are trying to use social media as a file store, you can bankroll an instance for under $200 a year, probably less. This won’t fix the drama, but nothing beyond a cold, profit driven instance trying to attract the absolute most people ever would (in which case you’d just end up with Twitter 2 in the end). What it does do is keep users closer to who gets to decide what should be federated or not; 6 friends who want to talk to someone is a lot more personally convincing to an admin than 6,000 serf users trying to do the same, and any decision that does get made has minimal impact on both instances’ users.
This is all predicated on people have friend groups on the Internet which, I speculate, isn’t as widespread as it ought to be, sadly.
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2023-10-18 00:30:42Event JSON
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