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Mastodon. It's bitcoin for your tweets. You're welcome ^^ (Edit: just for clarification, this is not meant to be serious, hence the ^^, but rather a play on ba
by groestl 4y ago
Mastodon. It's bitcoin for your tweets. You're welcome ^^
(Edit: just for clarification, this is not meant to be serious, hence the ^^, but rather a play on bad analogies in newspapers trying to explain something the writer has not understood to people that probably never will)
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- sph 4y agoI know how Mastodon and Bitcoin work, yet I have no idea what "bitcoin for your tweets" even means. That's a terrible analogy.
- dan-robertson 4y agoI think this breaks down because one assumes there’s some financial element (like other cryptocurrency projects) but that’s not really the case with mastodon.
- G3rn0ti 4y agoThe analogy has some merit as both Bitcoin and Mastodon are decentralized services that are not driven by a tech company with commercial interests in the background. Well, Bitcoin miners receive transaction fees and Mastodon instance operators donations but owners of Bitcoin or a Mastodon account have to create a meaning of these services by themselves. And I would argue that the article’s thesis is not far off as traditional media are confused by both projects due to this non-alignment of the services’ ownership and value they create. The typical crypto article focuses on advertising or scandalizing imploding crypto startups but fails to convey the benefit of international, distributed and programmable money. Similarly, the typical Mastodon article is about negative campaigning of Twitter and its new generally hated CEO but fails to explain the fundamental idea of a non-commercial distributed social network.