Very saddened to see.

A great and thoughtful article.

Very appreciateive of all the work Ernest and everyone has done here.

Really good interview, well worth your time.

Glad to see this new Magazing getting formed.

Agree.

Great idea. On it.

I voted for “Artemis” but YMMV…

Our goal: to be a better place for new users to onboard, and to be an organizing hub or those looking to spread Mastodon and the Fediverse. Opening up all the source code so any Fediverse portal can reuse. For example a SpreadKbin site could modify and use.

Andreas, Did you see this? This is where we are building for, would appreciate any notes to this idea and if it would alleviate your concerns about centralization: our goal would be to swap out one sever and swap in new ones over time to spread out far beyond four overall. And Mastodon.social staff are not involved and would not have any say over the four.

https://spreadmastodon.org/utilities/round-robin

would be a good idea to make a tag or an alert featured on the magazine if it appears no mod has logged in in over X days, with a link to apply to become one. Not sure who would approve that takeover tho… but a tag alone would be a warning to users that it was functionally unmoderated.

Fully agree with every word.

the source code here is all open and we encourage others like Kbin to use to make their own “SpreadKbin” onboarding portal.

More about this launch here: https://mastodon.social/@spreadmastodon/110554132079617918

You can see them all here: https://fedidb.org/ mid way down on the left.

I could be very wrong, but FediDB is the source of this bot, and the developer there thinks that the Stats number at the footer of Kbin includes remote followers from the Fediverse, but the number he gets from the API counts local users. Would love someone who knows the tech of how Kbin defines stats on the lower footer to confirm.

BTW, love the term “Threadiverse.”