Updates from the Mastodon team
The role of mastodon.social in the Mastodon ecosystem
Can you imagine Facebook closing registrations and saying “Sorry, we have too many users already, you can go sign up on Twitter instead”? And yet, this sort of situation comes up with Mastodon every so often, in regards to the mastodon.social server. You see, Mastodon is decentralized. That means there is no “main” server. If mastodon.social actually disappeared from the face of the Earth, it would not bring down the Mastodon network at all. But it is one of the biggest servers, meaning that if you look at the registered userbase, it is “effectively centralized”. 300,000 is not a small chunk of 2,000,000, after all.
Eugen Rochko
Strategy & Product Advisor, Founder
Why does decentralization matter?
Reasons why you should care about how your social network is run and structured
Eugen Rochko
Strategy & Product Advisor, Founder