Mastodon.social's continued growth as a percentage of the Fedi is (IMHO) worrying, I did a thread about this: https://social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/115492120189076969
M.s is currently 28.7% of all active Fedi accounts and rising. For whatever it's worth, if m.s reaches these network percentages I'm going to take following actions:
40% - Stop recommending mastodon.social accounts on @FediFollows & https://fedi.directory
45% - Limit mastodon.social
50% - Defederate mastodon.social
Thoughts? Do these sound okay?
I'd tend towards expressing that 28.7% is already sufficient to stop recommending mastodon.social, or any other big* server; that's too high a concentration for a decentralised network.
I'd therefore turn around and positively NOT recommend mastodon.social at this point. Obviously, nothing against mastodon.social or it's people, but for the general health of the network, (and for humanity!) Waiting until 40% would be too late.
I would not be so worried to establish at this time any hard percentages for limits or de-federation, I'd just hope that a campaign for conscientious of the reasons why not to join mastodon.social, the importance of small servers, and many of them, would be enough, and then deal with the other scenario if we ever get there, hopefully not.
* I'll admit I have an ideal about #fediverse servers, which is that the "community" of users on a server should reflect a #community that shares a reasonably close connection in some sense, AFK, IRL or whatever way you want to say #offline. This in itself should limit numbers, without having to explicitly place those limits.
Of course I accept other people have other valid notions and do not share this idea, so some larger servers may work too.
"I'd therefore turn around and positively NOT recommend mastodon.social at this point"
I've been saying not to join mastodon.social for several years now, article at https://fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-idea-to-join-a-big-server/
The non-recommendation is about not recommending accounts to follow there on @FediFollows (currently I recommend following accounts from many places including mastodon.social).
@homegrown
I see, thanks for the clarification.
That is a more difficult question.
I would not refrain from recommending an account that truly merits recommendation. But maybe in a toss up between a big server account and a more decentralised account, the bias could lean towards the latter. But i suppose space is not scarce in recommendation lists.
