Research professor in the Kahlert School of Computing at the University of Utah. Co-director of the Flux Research Group: https://www.flux.utah.edu. I build research infrastructure: https://cloudlab.us, https://powderwireless.net, https://emulab.net .
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Please get your day off to a good start by enjoying this photo of Kiki getting some outside time
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@SnoopJ @davidcelis @glyph brb renaming all my wifi SSIDs "give Rob monies"
What would happen to your timeline if mastodon.social went away?
(Reposting my tool that helps you figure this out.)
mastodon.social is the biggest server on the #fediverse , with over 21% of accounts, and an even higher percentage of #Mastodon accounts.
But what does that mean to you, personally? Let's say it went away tomorrow - (assuming you aren't on it yourself), how much of your timeline would vanish?
In my case, it turns out - not a lot, actually! The biggest sources of posts that I see are (1) a very small instance that doesn't even federate with much of the Fediverse, but many of my friends are there, (2) my own instance, (3) a large tech-focused instance that is still much smaller than mastodon.social. The big guy is only 5% of the post I've seen recently.
But this might be different for you!
Find out for yourself at https://moderation-explorer.online/ . Use 'advanced mode' to see this analysis, since you need to log into see your actual feed.
You might even decide to try moving to an instance that you're more connected to?
(It's explained more on the site, but all the work happens in your browser, I don't see your identity, auth tokens, posts that get loaded, none of it.)
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@ben @silverpill Yeah, I think this does come as a surprise to many of us. Blacksky also appears to be picking up some steam, some users have been migrating there and I believe they just started their own relay (not shown on my page). If any substantial decentralization of deployment happens, my guess is that it'd start now, or when the bluesky company implodes in some manner. This is why I think it's worth watching to see if it happens.