@krusynth@mastodon.cloud - I'm skeptical about the "instance is like discord"...
@krusynth@mastodon.cloud
- I'm skeptical about the "instance is like discord" because of the high cost of creating an account (it takes years to build up a social graph) people have more than one persona and few have the will to create so accounts-per-persona
I'm trying to solve this:
- I ran wordpress blogs. Always breaking, constant spam attacks, $$$
- I used free blog engines. Many of them disappeared taking my content with them.
- I used paid blog engines. They disappeared taking my content with 'em.
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Maybe the experience of changing instances every six months (when mastodon.social is over run by spam or when mstdn.social gets defederated for insufficient moderation...)will be less problematic than I imagine.
A self hosted system won't have moderation problems (bad actors on instance), although it could have comment spam & maintenance probs (in the sense of requiring too many weekends of work)