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the fediverse and business right now mix about as well as oil and water but it will be interesting to see how that evolves as it becomes mainstream.
by college_physics 4y ago
the fediverse and business right now mix about as well as oil and water but it will be interesting to see how that evolves as it becomes mainstream.
- sleepybrett 4y agoSure except that's up to instance owners. For instance tapbots (the makers of tweetbot (RIP, king) and Ivory (so good)) makes clients for mastodon and have made their own mastodon instance for their accounts. Nothing is stopping them from doing that. They have both 'people' accounts and 'app' accounts. Again nothing to stop them from doing that. If some admin of some other mastodon server is so against any kind of commercialization of the mastodon timeline they are absolutely welcome to add the tapbots mastodon instance to their killfile and it's gone for people who host their accounts at that instance. They won't be able to see any posts sourced from the tapbots instance. However I don't think this is very likely and if they did this I suspect over time they would attract less and less users. I do suspect more instance owners will be happy to block other instances that advertise themselves as 'free speech havens' or whatever the 4-chan kids are calling their 'wretched hives of scum and villainy' these days. I suspect most of their users will care less about those kinds of blocks. It's very analogous to running your own mailservers.