Notices by Patrick Georgi (patrick@georgi.family), page 3
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Patrick Georgi (patrick@georgi.family)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Sep-2021 12:30:01 UTC 
Patrick Georgi
@codewiz @5tr34k_ @ilwoody @lubimaer I disagree with this concept, so let me give a counter-point:
While it's still a bit too much work to keep an instance up and running (something that should be improved), the time and/or money spent on running your own instance is a good investment in the health of the Fediverse:
The Fediverse benefits if feature development can't assume that people rally around a few big instances. It's harder to implement certain features that way, e.g. in the recent discussion around having or not having a server-local timeline really was about "topical" timelines to discover users with similar interests. However that implies that all "open source-y" folks have an account on fosstodon, all LGBT folks have an account on lgbt.io to make the "local" part in "local timeline" work.
That's bad both for intersectionality (is a queer open source activist forced to used two accounts?) and when trying to avoid network effects.
Why avoid network effects? An admin can go rogue (we've seen this often enough in the Fediverse already even though it's still tiny). It skews incentives when you have a captive audience (monetization!). It encourages incompatibility when a few large instances/implementations can decide what protocol they _really_ speak.
My ideal instance size is "group of people that already have some kind of social connection in a different context". A family, a club, a pre-existing community where people know each other... An instance with a single user is just fine, too. -
Patrick Georgi (patrick@georgi.family)'s status on Saturday, 28-Aug-2021 04:02:09 UTC
Patrick Georgi
@codewiz @5tr34k_ @ilwoody @lubimaer Searches (including for tags) are limited to the posts that your instance has seen (i.e. posted on your instance or followed/replied to/... by somebody on your instance).
There have been a few projects to build search engines for the Fediverse but somehow all projects I find are now abandoned.
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