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   Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Mar-2024 06:46:06 JST Tim Chambers

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   @mrcompletely One counterpoint: growth of the Fediverse isn’t necessarily about a mindset of commercial market share driven by bottom line thinking: it could also be about opening up more people to a freer more healthy open social web, just for the common good.

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     Mr. Completely (mrcompletely@heads.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Mar-2024 06:46:13 JST Mr. Completely

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     This point is neither pro nor anti Threads per se though it is a rejection of one of the rationales sometimes offered for federation. Growth oriented goals are, in my opinion, based on assumptions rooted in competitive capitalism. Masto/Fedi are not profit seeking capitalist enterprises and thus imposing those imperatives on them is a conceptual error to be avoided. I would prefer to see slow, organic growth until a natural homeostasis is reached; that is, the kind of growth we already see.

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     Mr. Completely (mrcompletely@heads.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Mar-2024 06:46:18 JST Mr. Completely

     My only thought/take re: meta/threads and federation that's worth sharing at all is that I don't see any benefit in raising awareness of Masto/Fedi via that federation or anything else. I disagree with the premise that ramping up growth is good & suspect it may be quite destructive if it outstrips the rate that moderation and at least a bit of cultural assimilation can scale. I don't care about killing Xitter or any other external goal. I just want this place to succeed as itself & remain itself