Again, a quick and dirty analysis, but if I have no bugs then the 1% largest #Mastodon instances accounts for 84% of all users.
The top 5% accounts for 97% of all users.
We can say that the system is effectively centralizing around a few instances, and this might be a problem for the overall stability and sustainability.
@PessoaBrain With this high level of unequal resource distribution, the admins of the largest instances also will have costs that are not even comparable to the ones of the smallest instances: the scaling is simply not that simple.
Sustainability, moderation, robustness to attacks: tons of potential problems for the #Mastodon system.
@PessoaBrain Not to mention that with this scaling, it will not be sustainable to pay a top instance with current approaches.. at some point it will be required to monetize the presence of so many users (eg, with advertisement), which is the opposite of what should happen by design.
Instances have to self-organize to redirect users when above some capacity limit.
Manlio De Domenico
in reply to Manlio De Domenico • • •With this high level of unequal resource distribution, the admins of the largest instances also will have costs that are not even comparable to the ones of the smallest instances: the scaling is simply not that simple.
Sustainability, moderation, robustness to attacks: tons of potential problems for the #Mastodon system.
#TwitterMigration #MigrationShock #ComplexSystems
Manlio De Domenico
in reply to Manlio De Domenico • • •Instances have to self-organize to redirect users when above some capacity limit.