That's a clever thing about how they've built Mastodon: it makes no difference at all to the vast majority of users if one instance became mainstream vs hundreds I'm running my own unique instance with just a single user – me – and all of the features I care about work just fine
@simonw
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Community Moderation Improves Conversation Quality Standards
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I feel bad admitting this out loud, but filtering out the people who can't be bothered to work it out might be one of the reasons the conversations over there are in such good shape at the moment
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Ecosystem resilience testament to sustainable technological infrastructure
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The fact that it's merely groaning as opposed to keeling over dead is an incredible testament to what the people in that ecosystem have built already!
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Microformats Enable Account Verification on Mastodon Platform
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Microformats are back too! rel=me is how account verification works on Mastodon https://
til.simonwillison.net/mastodon/verif
ying-github-on-mastodon
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Full-scale evacuation triggered: major AI-related emergency situation unfolds
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I moght have agreed with you 24 hours ago, but we are at full scale evacuation levels now!
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Debugging Complex Issues Remotely From Mobile Device
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(Quite chuffed that I debugged and fixed that issue entirely from my phone without even getting out of bed!)
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GitHub issue opened for dataset-lite project investigation
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Opened an issue to investigate https://
github.com/simonw/dataset
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Pinning Dependencies to Prevent Unexpected Package Updates
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Huh I'm seeing that too! Must have been a dependency change somewhere, I should pin everything so that can't happen overnight because something shipped a new package
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Decentralization prevents billionaire control of social networks
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I ignored Mastodon for years because I didn't think I wanted a decentralized social network Turns out the most important feature for me is that it can't be bought by a narcissistic billionaire on a whim, and that's the one thing that decentralization delivers really well
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Managing International Service Infrastructure at Twitter Scale
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This thread just keeps on going, it's an amazing catalogue of issues you have to be able to deal with handling an international service at Twitter scale