Mastodon and the Fediverse Have an Issue: Liability for Content (Even in Other Instances) and Costs
Earlier this year we wrote about large instances of Mastodon throwing in the towel. I too suffered from this 3 times (after the third time I got the message and called it quits for good). Now it looks like an instance with 13k users has issues:
Having witnessed what happened to JoinDiaspora, gnusocial.de, mastodon.technology, and pleroma.site I can tell, based on direct experience, that all those Social Control Media sites are a waste of time. They all went offline. They never came back. People must accept (or learn from mistakes) that self-hosting is the only logical path forward.
Also revisit:
- Techrights Statement: The Solution is Not More Censorship or Moving to Another Mastodon Instance, the Core Problem is Social Control Media Including Mastodon
- No, Mastodon is Not Growing, Social Control Media is Generally Waning
- Graveyard of Mastodons: A Vast Number of Inactive Accounts
Social Control Media is "media" that typically has the shelf life or impact for a few minutes (unless something goes "viral", then it can last hours or days) and then vanishes completely in a few years, maybe less than a year. █