So ... having sucked up most the latest twitter wave, mastodon.social, the single instance, if you go by MAU, is now 22% of the fediverse and 25% of masto-verse!
@maegul@fediversenews That's the sign-up flow so that makes sense. But as people get comfortable with how the fediverse works, they will naturally start migrating to other servers.
I think it's better to have an easy onboarding than people just being totally confused and not signing up at all.
I'm just more suspicious that mastodon.social, or any big central instance for that matter, is more sticky and gains more momentum as it grows than you give it credit.
Which is not necessarily a great evil, depending on your goals.
For me though, a single "BDFL" controlling the super dominant platform and instance starts to eat away at the notion we have of a diverse and pluralistic fediverse.
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