Some people had mistakenly thought that Mastodon’s local timelines were obsolete. Now that we’ve seen the limits on how high you can scale a single instance, it’s obvious that the future of the fediverse is a large number of small communities talking to each other, not a small handful of giant single points of failure.
Keep Mastodon weird. Get to know your neighbors, and help build your local community.
@tek I only joined earlier this year, but the local timeline is so appealing to me. I came of age in the late 80s/early 90s when BBSes we're at their peak. To me, the local timeline is just like dialing into a local BBS and then you have the federated timeline that is something like Fidonet.
Right now I'm on a private instance because I wanted to play and I just haven't found one that feels like home.
Right now I'm on a private instance because I wanted to play and I just haven't found one that feels like home.
@josh I was there, too, and I like that analogy a lot.
@SecondJon @josh We ran an Enigma BBS here a couple of years ago. It was a huge blast of nostalgia. It also reminded me of why I instantly fell in love with the Internet the moment I got access to it.