Post #4237187

@JustinDerrick@mstdn.ca @chroma@raccoonisland.social Yeah, I get that. And I get that it's a much bigger discussion. A lot of people don't WANT millions and millions of users on the Fediverse in general. And then there's the fact that some smaller instances couldn't sustain millions and millions of users. To me, I want the millions and the hundreds of millions and the billions. I want all the celebs to come. All the big brands to come. I want to see this place being the next Facebook or X or.... Even if that means trolls. I want us to go mainstream. With the exception, of course, that smaller instances wouldn't be able to handle it because it would just explode their overheads. For that, though, I think we need to ability for those to remain small if they want to. And we... almost do already, because you can block and defederate with other instances if you want. And you can open and close registrations if you want too, but I think we need a way to automate that process. Like IRC servers, where you can tell it, "don't allow more than 500 concurrent users in a server", we need a way to tell Mastodon to only accept a maximum of xxxx total users on a server, before automatically closing registrations. So you don't wake up tomorrow morning and suddenly see 100k new users having signed up overnight. That way a potential user could see something like, "Sorry, this server is already at capacity, so registration is closed. Please find a different server to join." :)