Notices by Laurelai Bailey (stuxnetsource@mastodon.social)

See. This is the ideal solution. https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/10442

Sp3r4z's stats page also has some stats regarding centralisation:

It lists the Gini index in regards to users on Mastodon instances. The Gini index is used in economics to measure income inequality, where a 0 would be perfect equality and 1 complete inequality (all income in the hands of one person).

The Mastodon federation Gini index in regards to users per instance is 0.96.

"The 3 biggest instances representing 52.26% of total users"

http://sp3r4z.fr/mastodon/general

the user with the most followers wants to rank people by popularity?

shocked

I am shocked

@Electron @stuxnetsource Me too. He fell for the tech bro equivalent of nerd sniping (https://xkcd.com/356/)

It started taking off and he had to work on making sure it scales up. Now he is in love with that problem.

@stuxnetsource lol you made it to 3rd last I checked

@stuxnetsource @kurtm
yes, so they do not exist other than objects.

(that's a thing I cannot help but deeply despise)

@mareklach @KitRedgrave not true! Laurelai, everyone's favorite scapegoat around here, quickly determined that the list is policed from the outside after gaining entry to it by ordinary means, thereby demonstrating that being on the list is at least partly determined by arbitrary moderation decisions.

in any case not a single user outside of Gargron's fan club wants this.

so apparently Gargron has created a Popular Persons directory under his supervision. no one is allowed to be popular that he doesn't think deserves it. I feel good about this, don't you?

@stuxnetsource Maybe they can, but only with close supervision by folks outside of white cishet dudes.

@Electron @stuxnetsource He totally thinks they exist. They exist to help him show how far he can scale up his toy.

@stuxnetsource uhhhhhh

Way to gargron it all up again, Eugen.

Holy Christ this active users directory is a bad fucking idea