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If this was positioned as "20usd/year mastodon account on our cool instance and - BTW - you get free webpage and email forwarding" would get much closer to the
by 627467 4y ago
If this was positioned as "20usd/year mastodon account on our cool instance and - BTW - you get free webpage and email forwarding" would get much closer to the audience.
I sense the point of this funny domain is the community, and community is centered on mastodon instance which btw, is not cheap to run as soon as it grows beyond a few hundred people. (I'm including potential moderation costs)
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- motoxpro 4y agoI don't use mastodon but would love all the rest of it.
- kinggencha 4y agoAll of it is already available on the web, often on a variety of hosts, though
- pprotas 4y agoI think you are overestimating how many people care about Mastodon
- tptacek 4y agoI think you're probably underestimating how many people are going to care about Mastodon.
- MrOwnPut 4y agoI think we should average out what you are both estimating.
- elromulous 4y agoThis. Reminds me of [1]. Although I never finished reading it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds
- antipotoad 4y agoI think you could be underestimating it. I’d guess there’s a simmering level of interest among a lot of people, especially those more conscious of moving away from big tech / corporate platforms. FWIW, this tipped me over the edge into setting up a Mastodon account — it was very painless. We’ll see whether I actually start using Mastodon, but it’s a start.
- jug 4y agoThey have grown from 300K monthly active users to 2.5M in December. Nothing compared to social networks at large, crazy numbers compared to the omg.lol user base.
- philliphaydon 4y agoIf it was advertised as mastodon I would close the webpage. I have 0 interest in it and I don’t know anyone in my direct tech circle who is on it.
- antipotoad 4y agoYou really have no interest in the concept of a non-corporate / non–billionaire-controlled Twitter? Not trying to bait you, but genuinely curious on your stance.
- f1refly 4y agoI believe the issue for many people is not the "non-corporate / non-billionaire-control" part, and more the "twitter" part. It may sound weird to people who use twitter, but much of the world don't have the slightest interest in the concept.
- philliphaydon 4y agoIt makes no difference if the person controlling it is a billionaire good guy or bad guy. The result is the same. If you go down the route of mastodon then all you’re doing is segregation. In scenario A you pool people together into 1 big void and everyone gets angry and both sides consider each other wrong. In scenario B you segregate people into groups of opinions where the moment your opinion differs you’re kicked from that group. Either way we are long past the time when you could have an educated conversation and debate. I have no desire to join a void with single opinions and nothing to discuss.
- dpatterbee 4y agoThe whole point of federated activitypub servers is the opposite of segregation - everyone gets to use whatever server they want and they can still interact with anyone else. Servers blacklisting each other (or defederating) is possible of course, but nothing's stopping you from just joining another server, and twitter at this point is just a large defederated mastodon instance anyway.
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- KomoD 4y agoI would have no interest if it was "mastodon-centered"
- george_probably 4y agoThe service has been around for years, the real die-hards are actually on the IRC (which recently got a tie-in with a Discord server for those who want to chat on there without having the technical knowhow to use IRC). I personally got it for the webpage, to use as an online business card, and have been loving all of the other stuff that surrounds it like the new Weblog feature