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Recently, we experimented with a new social media account on #Mastodon. Now we've taken a few steps further. We run our own server open to all.
It's great to be on the #Fediverse with https://vivaldi.social
Read the news 
https://vivaldi.com/blog/news/vivaldi-social-a-new-mastodon-instance/
#TwitterMigration #MastodonMigration
@Vivaldi Hi folks, nice to see this.
In the spirit of keeping the fediverse decentralised, would you be open to agreeing to a maximum size (e.g., N active accounts) for your instance from the outset? (And what’s the N you’d be happy with?) Thanks!
@aral Decentralisation is indeed super important and there are clearly already growing communities around specific topics. We want to see more of that! In addition and number of organisations have started to open instances. This is also fantastic… more please!
We will see how this plays out. Our primary motivation here is to provide something for people who cannot find an instance that works and is snappy and as a service to our own users.
@aral This is a really tricky balance though. Right now smaller instances struggle and not everyone can self host even with great services like @mastohost
If you do not know as as a company it is hard to see and trust our motivations. We get that but our motivation here is to try our best to help, not take over the fediverse.
@aral I suggest you look at things our founder @jon has said during the course of his career at both Opera and Vivaldi. He has consistently pushed for open protocols and interoperability. I can promise you we will not go back on that now and try and embrace and extend. It is against the very core of what we want to do.
I realise this requires a leap of faith and we are open for more discussion.
@Vivaldi @jon Well, Opera was sold to a Chinese consortium for ~$600 million if I remember correctly so let’s leave that to one side :)
My worry is seeing posts like this https://social.vivaldi.net/@daniel/109347059648513928 and that you’ve already extended Mastodon by providing log in with Vivaldi accounts. (This makes perfect sense for you and the people who use the browser of course but it already gives Vivaldi an experience advantage.) So I’m thinking what other features could be added to Vivaldi to extend Mastodon?…
With regards to the sale of Opera, just to be very clear. That happened after I left Opera and would not have happened with me still in charge. Same applies to the death of the core of Opera, Presto, and the overall product strategy change.
I believe in open standards and that is what we will follow and support. We want to help Mastodon grow, not divide it.
@jon That’s good to hear, Jon. And I guess we should build things (especially if they’re proprietary) with the expectation that they will all one day be sold to a Chinese consortium and not implement anything that we wouldn’t be comfortable using ourselves were it to be owned thusly in the future :)
