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   Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 00:50:38 JST Alex Gleason
   @76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa People are naturally tribal. Leaders are integral to the ActivityPub model, in which people accumulate around charismatic admins. It's not really a centralizing factor as long as people can move between servers (they can't really on ActivityPub; you can murder your whole ship).
   
   It's interesting how people talk about Mastodon admins being worse than Big Tech jannies. Usually they are, but it's not an inherent flaw in human nature or anything, it's just that Mastodon as a project attracts people who are childish, narcissistic, and dramatic. It's totally possible to be a balanced and reasonable admin, although it gets harder as the community grows. Which brings me to the next problem of Mastodon being maximalist software architecture. It's great for sites like Truth Social who can throw money at the problem to scale, and terrible for sites with 10 users because they can't afford to keep hosting it.
   
   But we have to recognize the ways in which the model helped the Fediverse explode. Which is why I'm trying to strike a balance with Ditto. Mastodon's community model on top of a network where users aren't held captive.
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     tekne (577de06dce160a0379163a4bb7b680be3e0a0e1c68de6e6ba8c01134b44064dd@mostr.pub)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 03:29:52 JST tekne

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     Users feel more comfortable using tech that is supported by a faceless company. Moreso than tech that is supported by Some Guy.
     
     The ambiguity of server rules being dictated by what that guy ate that morning just sucks. Companies have policies, user protections, etc
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 03:31:05 JST Alex Gleason

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     @577de06dce160a0379163a4bb7b680be3e0a0e1c68de6e6ba8c01134b44064dd @76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa Agreed, in general. I see the author's point about the pirate ship model, though. That's basically how my server is run. And I have a handful of people who really enjoy it just because they enjoy being on my ship.
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     Hyolobrika (hyolobrika@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 03:47:39 JST Hyolobrika

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     It would also be cool if I could import my followlist to Nostr, but I can't.
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     Hyolobrika (hyolobrika@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 03:47:40 JST Hyolobrika

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     Not for me. I prefer being in control of my posting. The only reason I'm not using Nostr is because the UX sucks. The clients are all janky and finding fedi users to follow on Nostr doesn't work properly in my experience.