They only support devices a year past their end of life. That’s not much better than stock. Other ROMs like DivestOS and Lineage do a better job of long-term support.

It’s an absolutely massive instance that’s a net negative for the Fediverse. It completely defeats the purpose of federation. The Mastodon devs used to drive people to smaller instances but decided they wanted to be /the/ instance. They made themselves a default in the app. At around the same time other instances started getting a crap ton of spam from them that ate up a bunch of moderator’s time on smaller instances. The Fediverse only works in regards to moderation because there is less users per admin, but mastodon.social doesn’t have that advantage. A bunch of people defederated from them as a result which was a good thing for the instances that did it. They failed pretty hard at communicating during this time as well.

Having one instance hold a large part of the network is bad for everybody involved. Defederating from monoliths is a healthy thing for networks to do. Building your own web beats any algorithm, can’t do that if you’re already federating with 99% of people.

It’s actually insane how fast this port was.

This is a good thing. We don’t want another mastodon.social situation.