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John McChesney-Young

@jmccyoung@mstdn.social

@robert @awsamuel Large servers can have moderation problems, but an additional point in favor of the Goldilocks approach is that small servers will usually have poorer returns for hashtag searches, if I'm correct in thinking that results depend on someone – anyone – on your instance boosting posts with that hashtag, because otherwise your server won't know about them.

2022-12-02, 21:28 0 boosts 1 favorites

@jmccyoung @robert @awsamuel

Sustainability: a small server with many external contacts needs to store local copies of federated media now.

Hashtag searches only go to (more or less) "friend of a friend" networks, not global. It's about local context rather than global reach.

Continuity of hosts is what I see as defining: get enough public institutions and capacity on board now around public debates, or become an irrelevant niche.

EU: don't build the next Google but a new way of organising!