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   Ruth Mottram (ruth_mottram@fediscience.org)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 07:01:36 JST Ruth Mottram

   A message from an old media #TheEconomist to the new..

   #SocialMedia #SocialNetwork
   You've been given free access to this article from The Economist as a gift. You can open the link five times within seven days. After that it will expire.

   The end of the social network
   https://econ.st/42v6RGI

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     GuySoft (guysoft@hayu.sh)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 07:01:33 JST GuySoft

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     • Albert Cardona
     @albertcardona
     Well, its only looking at commercial social networks. But for us, the users, all we need is it for it to be sustainable. And the fediverse is sustainable. It lets us create a different kind of social network that does not have those drawbacks.
     
     @Ruth_Mottram
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     Albert Cardona (albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 07:01:34 JST Albert Cardona

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     @Ruth_Mottram

     "The striking feature of the new social media is that they are no longer very social."

     You don't say.

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     Albert Cardona (albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 07:10:16 JST Albert Cardona

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     • GuySoft

     @guysoft @Ruth_Mottram

     Fortunately, the broader public hasn't discovered Mastodon yet. It is not clear to me how an "eternal September" situation will be avoided when that happens, if it happens.

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     GuySoft (guysoft@hayu.sh)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 07:12:32 JST GuySoft

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     • Albert Cardona
     @albertcardona
     They might never will. Like F-droid and newpipe. They want it once they know its there. They just never check. Also unlike those the leaning curve is there.
     @Ruth_Mottram
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     accretionist (accretionist@techhub.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 15:54:18 JST accretionist

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     • GuySoft
     • Albert Cardona

     @albertcardona @guysoft @Ruth_Mottram usenet newsgroups didn't have defederation

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