hey you know what would be a very interesting way to scale large instances
literally make a second mastodon.social
and redirect all new users there, the two hosted independently and maybe even managed differently or organized in regions
and potentially some addition that help the two share the local timeline efficiently
i mean that's how the network is *designed* to scale
@CobaltVelvet yeah but the issue here is that a lot of blogs/articles/new users who don't know better link directly to mastodon.social. so yeah i could open another instance but it wouldn't like, help much? unless we sneakily redirect from our frontpage to the other one, but that would mess with people who want to login
@kurisu @CobaltVelvet a prominent banner is the only option to do this but i don't know how effective it would really be. in the past when we closed sign ups new people thought "mastodon is closed", not "mastodon.social is closed", despite all the text explaining otherwise.
@kurisu @CobaltVelvet @zatnosk this is why switter is great for the fediverse, they get their own press and act as a completely separate "entrypoint" to the idea of the fediverse
pawoo, friends.nico and social.coop are like that too. a lot of the other servers don't have resources or interest in attracting an outside public and rely on inter-fediverse movements, e.g. people who are already into the idea.
