A decentralised system doesn’t have a flagship instance. Just sayin’.
We’re not an alternative as long as we adopt their success criteria. Let’s do better.
@aral I disagree, a decentralized system can have a flagship instance.
Unfortunately if we stay on our own small ship and gatekeep heavily, other people in the bigger ships will decide the rules of the sea for us.
I think we should make the Fediverse as user friendly as possible.
If you hate having a flagship instance, then maybe you have a flagship federation of a series of large servers that you automatically join if you ask a service to "Choose for you". But we need a flagship something if we are to make decentralization mainstream. Isn't that the goal? To normalize decentralization so that we don't make the same mistakes again?