Mastodon's founder has a vision to democratize social media

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Post by buovjaga » Sun, Nov 06, 2022, 3:11 PM UTC

Mastodon's founder has a vision to democratize social media
time.com

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Post by cratermoon » Sun, Nov 06, 2022, 3:33 PM UTC

Who do Mastodon's boosters believe is going to be installing and running Mastodon servers?

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Post by lostfocus » Sun, Nov 06, 2022, 3:36 PM UTC

cratermoon wrote: post #2

Who do Mastodon's boosters believe is going to be installing and running Mastodon servers?

Nerds

Re: Mastodon's founder has a vision to democratize social media

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Post by amelius » Sun, Nov 06, 2022, 3:44 PM UTC

Wasn't it the idea of Musk to give everyone on Twitter absolute freedom of (amplification of) speech?

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Post by r721 » Sun, Nov 06, 2022, 3:46 PM UTC

cratermoon wrote: post #2

Who do Mastodon's boosters believe is going to be installing and running Mastodon servers?

Who is running current 5k servers? Same kind of people.

http://demo.fedilist.com/instance?q=&ip=&software=mastodon&r...

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Post by Ygg2 » Sun, Nov 06, 2022, 3:48 PM UTC

lostfocus wrote: post #3

cratermoon wrote: post #2

Who do Mastodon's boosters believe is going to be installing and running Mastodon servers?

Nerds

Before they are bought by bigwigs with cash.

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Post by zikduruqe » Sun, Nov 06, 2022, 3:51 PM UTC

Ygg2 wrote: post #6

lostfocus wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nerds

Before they are bought by bigwigs with cash.

Then we'll move to Yddgrasil.

https://yggdrasil-network.github.io

https://letsdecentralize.org

Re: Mastodon's founder has a vision to democratize social media

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Post by remram » Sun, Nov 06, 2022, 3:54 PM UTC

zikduruqe wrote: post #7

Ygg2 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Before they are bought by bigwigs with cash.

Then we'll move to Yddgrasil. https://yggdrasil-network.github.io https://letsdecentralize.org

This appears to be a transport layer... It is not a social network, and would still require people to run always-on "instances" of software to be usable as one.

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Post by tomrod » Sun, Nov 06, 2022, 3:55 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #4

Wasn't it the idea of Musk to give everyone on Twitter absolute freedom of (amplification of) speech?

Hard to do with an ad-driven platform.

Re: Mastodon's founder has a vision to democratize social media

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Post by dmitriid » Sun, Nov 06, 2022, 3:57 PM UTC

r721 wrote: post #5

cratermoon wrote: post #2

Who do Mastodon's boosters believe is going to be installing and running Mastodon servers?

Who is running current 5k servers? Same kind of people. http://demo.fedilist.com/instance?q=&ip=&software=mastodon&r...

And most of those servers stopped registrations when the exodus from Twitter began.

One reason, so that communities wouldn't get diluted. The other, it's expensive to run this.