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"It's OK if the number of secondary fediverse services¹ is much less than the number of accounts or the number of primary account services², as long as it's much more than one."
¹ for example: people search, text search, tag search, bridges, groups, reposters
² for example: Mastodon, Friendica, Pixelfed, Pleroma instances
I'll take for instance the number of services that help you find your Twitter social graph on the fediverse. I know of Debirdify, Fedifinder, and Movetodon.
There are probably a few more I don't know of, but I doubt there are more than about 10 publicly available.
There are about 10-20K primary account servers on the fediverse.
There are close to 10M accounts on the fediverse.
So roughly 1::1000::1000000 proportions there.
If you're opposed to text/people/tag search of any kind, even those that are opt-in and respect noindex tags, please just ignore those kinds of services for this poll, and consider other kinds of services.
If you're opposed to any secondary services of any kind, well, I think you're strong disagree, since 0 is not greater than 1.
So, this was my least enjoyable poll so far.
We don't have great terminology on the fediverse for account services and other kinds of services. So a lot of people didn't get the question.
But also, the question really is, how many of a particular kind of service do we need for a healthy fediverse?
Four options might be:
- 0
- 1
- much more than 1 and much less than the number of Mastodon instances
- the number of Mastodon instances
Most folks don't think about this kind of question, though.
My least enjoyable poll ever was this one on Twitter, where I had lots of people telling me you can't learn from books.
https://mobile.twitter.com/evanpro/status/1574057757442920454