Every time I post something that gets lots of engagement, I essentially end up carrying out a denial of service attack on myself. What does this say about the design of Mastodon and ActivityPub and the future of the fediverse?
Agreed but I also read a message directed to us, the less high profile people that are on large instances. To stop centralization we can decide to move to another, smaller instance. This could be either a Mastodon instance or something like e.g Pleroma or Friendica. This could be either self-hosted or a trust worthy person that owns an existing instance that suits us. Do this in large enough numbers and decentralization will be guaranteed. BTW: here is a link to a list of Mastodon instances and their number of users and statuses: https://instances.social/list
Agreed but I also read a message directed to us, the less high profile people that are on large instances. To stop centralization we can decide to move to another, smaller instance. This could be either a Mastodon instance or something like e.g Pleroma or Friendica. This could be either self-hosted or a trust worthy person that owns an existing instance that suits us. Do this in large enough numbers and decentralization will be guaranteed. BTW: here is a link to a list of Mastodon instances and their number of users and statuses: https://instances.social/list
Good point - As a hoster of a single-user instance (pleroma) I think more options for managed hosting services could help with this.