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### Unlearning centralised behaviour
The huge influx of people from the #twittermigration did not go well for our
fluffy spiky debate project at the #OMN.
About 80% of the sign-up are dormant. 90% of those left are off-topic for a
grassroots, direct action instance.
Our #modteam are going to spend a few weeks talking to active people on the
Initially we had hoped that people would self-select an instance based on it's
core purpose - in our case acivism and campaigning - we were wrong. Perhaps it
is confusing that some instances are general-purpose, or maybe people are just
too used to centralisation as the norm.
The mass movement away from twitter is a great thing, but we all have some
learning and un-learning to do if we are to make something better in the long
term.
### Time to reorganise
Our **#modteam** are going to spend a few weeks talking to active people on the
instance, asking off-topic accounts to move to other instances
(see [the-federation](https://the-federation.info/mastodon)) - there are over
4000, covering every different subject to choose from.
We will also ask some accounts to move to our other instance at
[https://campaign.openworlds.info](https://campaign.openworlds.info) if it's a
better fit for them. A few of you have already been asked to move here, think
only one has made the effort so far.
If it looks like a better fit, we will also ask some accounts to move to our
other instance at [https://campaign.openworlds.info](https://campaign.openworlds.info).
A few of you have already been asked to move here; think only one has made the
effort so far.
For those that move, we recommend instances that have a maximum of a few hundred
to a thousand members, so you can help build a functional local community.
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actively chooses to isolate others or themselves.
Mastodon itself facilitates moving between instances:
[https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#migration](https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#migration)
[**https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#migration**](https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#migration)
If there are techies among you, who are on-topic and are able to setup and/or
host an instance yourselves, reach out to us and we will advise or help however
we can.
Reach out to #modteam if you have any questions.
Reach out to **#modteam** if you have any questions.
### Warning
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that are dormant and/or off-topic.
If you have an opinion on this, please tell us what you think we should do.
### Further federate
If there are techies among you, who are on-topic and are able to setup and/or
host an instance yourselves, reach out to us and we will advise or help however
we can.
### A deeper look