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This is true if the market is an inert resource, ripe for exploitation. However, the market is beginning to realise that social media is at the moment a bad act
by lyra_comms 9y ago
This is true if the market is an inert resource, ripe for exploitation. However, the market is beginning to realise that social media is at the moment a bad actor, and that their attention is being traded as a commodity. This realisation will bring a massive exodus towards services which respect users and language.
- spaceribs 9y agoI'm already looking at setting myself up with a private Mastodon instance for my friends, I never liked the idea of funnelling my life into a service I don't own and I don't think my friends do either.
- lyra_comms 9y agoMastodon is great, but its nature makes it inaccessible to those who would benefit most from open discourse and conversation: the layman. It's got a high barrier because it's aimed at the more technologically literate.
- dublinben 9y agoIt's no harder to register an account on any public Mastodon instance than it is to register for Facebook. In fact, it is arguably easier, since Facebook often requires phone number verification nowadays.
- lyra_comms 9y agoThat's true, but the distributed, decentralised nature is something that the layman is often not interested in understanding, and so can turn people off the network. Neither does it have a cuddly name!