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   Glenn Fleishman (glennf@twit.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 07:04:47 JST Glenn Fleishman

   Still reading and hearing takes that Mastodon has “failed” as a Twitter alternative. Listen, it’s ok if it doesn’t work for someone—unlike Twitter, I think Mastodon requires more effort and cultivation to produce an experience that feels meaningful. It’s been worth it for me. But there is definitely a smell of…not sour grapes but people making broad assumptions based on their own experience while ignoring millions of other people. Will Mastodon top 100 million? Who knows. Who cares?

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     sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 07:04:45 JST sj_zero

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     • Maria Bustillos
     The fediverse is a concept more like the original internet -- a bunch of little pieces that connect together independently without some broader authority exercising power over it.
     
     Short-sighted people would prefer there be an overarching authority because they imagine that they themselves would be in charge of that overarching authority. Whatever you think of Elon Musk, his takeover of Twitter is a perfect example of the fact that power changes hands, and some people will like the new powers, and other people won't, but it doesn't matter whether you like them or not they will be the ones with their boot on your neck.
     
     By contrast, a distributed system like the fediverse lacks and overarching power to implement policies that you would like, but also lacks and overarching power to implement policies that you don't like. Instead, individual operators get to choose how they want to run things in their little domain.
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     Maria Bustillos (maria@thelife.boats)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 07:04:46 JST Maria Bustillos

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     @glennf

     When #Twitter shuts down or is acquired, much will change... it's early days yet. Twitter took years to evolve.

     Do the world's #journalists want just one place to meet and compare notes? Yes, I think

     #Mastodon is the best fit for me by a mile, I love it here (again, *so far*, long road ahead)

     People like the freewheeling intimacy of Bluesky (where I just got on) but there are fewer than 100K users atm and we know that that won't scale.

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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 07:06:47 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • Maria Bustillos
     But they're journalists. They're not into free speech. 😒