increasingly i just disagree with the metrics along which people compare these things: 1. is the thing likely to survive for long enough that it makes sense fo

increasingly i just disagree with the metrics along which people compare these things: 1. is the thing likely to survive for long enough that it makes sense for me to build a community/connections on it. 2. will my experience of it improve as it develops over the years. and i’ve just been burned by the “shiny new platform, it’s cool for 5 years, then the investors cash out” playbook so many times now, and mutations of it like Apple’s (where they lock their devices down over time — but in a way that avoids backlash), that i just massively overweight (2). Mastodon/Activity Pub is excellent. i don’t have to worry about some nutcase with $$ barging in and slapping ads everywhere, hiding shit behind paywalls, shoving “reels” or “shorts” i never asked for into my timeline, messing with the “algorithms”, or whatever. Mastodon is, and it will continue to be, and at this point that’s about all i ask from anything.