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I Was Wrong About Mastodon

• fifanut 4y ago
  Random techie's random prediction was wrong? Wrong predictions from people outside their field of expertise don't warrant explanations.
  • spoonfeeder006 4y ago
    Its still pretty informative and eye opening at least for me
• jqpabc123 4y ago
  It appears to me that Mastodon has two significant interrelated issues: Money and moderation It takes money to keep an instance up and running. I see no reason to expect charity to be any more effective in this case than it has been for other Open Source projects --- which is not very. Moderation only adds to the cost of running an instance. Lack of moderation can be socially (and even legally) risky. Cost can be limited and contained for an isolated instance but as part of a large "federated" network, I can see how the resources hobbyists are willing/able to commit may be exceeded and become depleted. So where does this all lead? Probably right back to Twitter --- a social platform largely controlled/influenced by moneyed interests. It's not easy to change the world without funding.