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1. as mentioned earlier, network effects of twitter 2. you can just sign up for twitter, you don't need to pick an open instance run by some stranger. 3. depl
by tomphoolery 4y ago
1. as mentioned earlier, network effects of twitter
2. you can just sign up for twitter, you don't need to pick an open instance run by some stranger.
3. deploying a rails app isn't trivial, mastodon being written in rails and dependent on multiple DBs makes it harder to install and thus harder for people to run their own server.
As we continue to improve computing power and efficiency, I think the idea of using a federated social network so you can "own your data" is going to become less and less attractive. If you take this concept to its logical extreme, eventually everyone will run their own social networking server, and we'll be interconnected with each other through some kind of DHT magic. After all, the fediverse is still "someone else's computer", it's just that "someone else" in this case is some guy and not a for-profit company. It doesn't really solve the problem.