There’s still a lot of low hanging development fruit. All that downtime the bigger instances have are largely the result of poorly optimized database interactions (with the exception of the DDoSing) and that works out to higher costs overall. It should not cost instance admins nearly as much as it does to host a sum total of 50k users. Not to mention, moderation tools are still basically nonexistent. There is progress on tweaking the algorithm to not completely bury anything but the largest communities, so that will probably significantly improve folks feeds.
Also there’s no point recruiting from Reddit anymore. I think we are better off establishing a wholly new slow growth phase pulling primarily from Mastodon. The userbase is huge by our standards and already understands federation. Not to mention Mastodon users tend to be far more active posters than Reddit users.
There’s still a lot of low hanging development fruit. All that downtime the bigger instances have are largely the result of poorly optimized database interactions (with the exception of the DDoSing) and that works out to higher costs overall. It should not cost instance admins nearly as much as it does to host a sum total of 50k users. Not to mention, moderation tools are still basically nonexistent. There is progress on tweaking the algorithm to not completely bury anything but the largest communities, so that will probably significantly improve folks feeds.
Also there’s no point recruiting from Reddit anymore. I think we are better off establishing a wholly new slow growth phase pulling primarily from Mastodon. The userbase is huge by our standards and already understands federation. Not to mention Mastodon users tend to be far more active posters than Reddit users.
better that it doesnt grow uncontrollably to something the admins cant keep up with (both server costs and moderation with insufficient tools)