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There may be more reasons to see Mastodon as a potential threat. There's something of a different paradigm to it. First of all it is decentralized (federated),
by rapnie 5y ago
There may be more reasons to see Mastodon as a potential threat. There's something of a different paradigm to it. First of all it is decentralized (federated), and anyone can spin up servers for themself or a community of users, set their own topic and rules (CoC, ToS) and connect with the larger social network (the Fediverse). Second of all this fediverse is based on open-standards and anyone can develop their own social apps and integrate them with others. Mastodon just happens to be the most popular / well-known. Other apps, such as Pixelfed and Peertube offer nice, ad-free, and 'calmer' experiences to their large-scale social media alternatives (Instagram and Youtube). See https://fediverse.party/ https://fediverse.party/
Also note that Twitter has taken an interest in decentralized protocols with Bluesky project.
- tentacleuno 5y agoWhat happened to Bluesky? They made a bunch of promises and it sort of... disappeared after that.
- rapnie 5y agoThey recently hired Jay Graber as project lead: https://twitter.com/arcalinea/status/1427314482154414080 https://twitter.com/arcalinea/status/1427314482154414080
- kixiQu 5y agoThey've also started setting up community working groups -- the whole thing's coordinated in a Discord server, which is very weird to me, but you can see what they're up to.
- rictic 5y agoCurrent hypothesis is that they're just moving slowly, there are signs of life
- dragonelite 5y agouuhm going back to a time before the algos took over my timeline would be awesome.
- dredmorbius 5y agoFor those innocent days of Usenet k00ks, crapfloods, MAKEMONEYFAST, sockpuppets, crossposts, GREEN CARD, spam, warez, pr0n, Serdar Argic, and Hasan Mutlu. And the ~100,000 or so people who actually used that network.
- 6510 5y agoDesigning your own works much better than human labor + big brother deciding for you. On the contrary, Newscorp for example is great to get dynamic patterns of headlines you don't want to read.
- true_religion 5y agoMastodon is just multiuser microblogging with linkbacks.
- rapnie 5y agoMore than just that. Mastodon is one of multiple microblogging apps on the fediverse that can seamlessly interact, and get gradually more integrated with other types of application e.g. for blogging, media publishing, livestreaming, podcasting, event planning, etc.