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If Elon would migrate Twitter onto Mastodon, with the post history and all, now that would be a change for the history books. It would change social networks forever.
Without some way to capture value it would also be one of the biggest acts of capital destruction in recent tech history.
If Elon would migrate Twitter onto Mastodon, with the post history and all, now that would be a change for the history books. It would change social networks forever.
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Got it. Does it make any difference where I register first? E.g. if that instance disappears overnight, will I be able to recover my account or not? I understand that I can access posts from all instances in the instance I use, but not sure how account handling/ownership works.
This seems like a big weak point. I went to check it out just now and it's like "pick a server" and... I don't know, which one is best? Can I change later? Seems confusing, pass for now.
Embrace the fragmentation. The economic situation seems to be getting worse, there's tons of people without jobs that could get lots of exposure and experience working in tech related field by moderating all these small federated instances. Plenty of networking opportunities as well. There are going to be a lot more niche and diverse internet communities, and with things being spread out among the various instances i…
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Does Mastodon the software support ads? I always see the platform more akin to Reddit or Discord than Twitter tbh. Say I want to make an instance and want to host it. According to some 3rd party services [0] a 2000 user instance will cost me ~$90+taxes/month. That’s a lot if you compare it to a reddit sub or Discord server which are free and where I’d say a similar sized sub/server are quite small (not all 2000 users…
No, the open source software Mastodon does not have any ad mechanism, but obviously you could change that.
Side note, it blows my mind that Reddit shits the bed so hard at this. So many niche sub's would be the perfect venue for niche advertisers.
Does Mastodon the software support ads? I always see the platform more akin to Reddit or Discord than Twitter tbh. Say I want to make an instance and want to host it. According to some 3rd party services [0] a 2000 user instance will cost me ~$90+taxes/month. That’s a lot if you compare it to a reddit sub or Discord server which are free and where I’d say a similar sized sub/server are quite small (not all 2000 users…
Ads are unethical
Fuck it, I'm going back to usenet.
If Elon would migrate Twitter onto Mastodon, with the post history and all, now that would be a change for the history books. It would change social networks forever.
Does Mastodon the software support ads? I always see the platform more akin to Reddit or Discord than Twitter tbh. Say I want to make an instance and want to host it. According to some 3rd party services [0] a 2000 user instance will cost me ~$90+taxes/month. That’s a lot if you compare it to a reddit sub or Discord server which are free and where I’d say a similar sized sub/server are quite small (not all 2000 users…