Mastodon.technology Shutdown
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Mastodon.technology Shutdown
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#2> A member of my family was very recently diagnosed with a terminal illness. I am doing everything I can to support them.
I am sorry to hear that, but I can totally support them, and sincerely wish them the best of luck, dealing with a pretty awful situation.
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#3> The server has also gotten too large and too complex for me to administer.
I always suspected this would be a massive problem with Mastodon. I contemplated running a server, but there's no way to know beforehand when you'll be running into a limit, like cost or time. Can you really build a social network on volunteers that invest their own money and time, with little reward?
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#4Thank you for your volunteering and I hope your family member gets better Ash.
I think it’s unfortunate for us users but at least on an open source platform migrating to a new instance is possible. That said - this will be a hit to the community.
It just shows how relying on infrastructure with a low bus factor is risky and something for future attempts to consider.
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#5Thanks for everything qnd all the best!
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#6What do you think is the main issue with Mastodon not really getting mainstream adoption?
Not different enough than Twitter or too different from it?
Not enough marketing?
Bad UX?
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#7Sorry to hear this. Family must come first.
The mastodon.technology had some interesting folks. I've migrated my account to the mastodon.social instance. Moving accounts on Mastodon is pretty easy so that's a positive.
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#8>Why Not Transfer to a New Admin?
Users have put their trust in me with their data. Choosing a new admin would require a massive amount of trust, since they’d have access to over a half decade of user data. Not just data from my local users, but from users they have interacted with.
I think that's a very salient and responsible choice. With the freenode debacle coming to mind immediately I think it's important to remember how risky a change of ownership can be in particular if the users are not aware of it. Certainly a painful decision to shut the instance down, but a decision with a lot of foresight. An active migration might create disarray but it also forces people to make an active choice to trust another host.
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#9Thank you for your volunteering and I hope your family member gets better Ash. I think it’s unfortunate for us users but at least on an open source platform migrating to a new instance is possible. That said - this will be a hit to the community. It just shows how relying on infrastructure with a low bus factor is risky and something for future attempts to consider.
> relying on infrastructure with a low bus factor is risky
There are risks to every "bus factor," but I can totally get behind requiring a team of a certain size to be behind whatever infrastructure I rely on.
Most of my dependencies have a bus factor of 1 (Yours Troolie), as I write packages for my own consumption.
They are really, really good modules, and I publish them as general-purpose modules, but don't expect people (other than me) to really use them.
I did write a fairly massive infrastructure project, and managed it, alone, for ten years, then it was taken over by a team, and "went viral," in a sense. The best thing I ever did for that project, was toss the keys to the new team, and walk away. It's in very good shape, now.
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#10What do you think is the main issue with Mastodon not really getting mainstream adoption? Not different enough than Twitter or too different from it? Not enough marketing? Bad UX?
Network effects of twitter. Your friends are already on twitter if they still use this style of broadcast text based social media.
Also recent privacy concerns and less recent issues with internet hostility means we're already past peak twitter, so mastodon is having to break into a declining market.