Notices by Mark Atwood (mark@chatter.quux.world)

the three steps of how platforms fail: grow by serving customers, betray the customers by serving the business partners, betray the business partners to try to take all the value for itself. the next step is to either die, or use some money to buy a sweet government monopoly

"I don't understand job interviewers who don't like seeing tattoos on candidates. Being able to sit still for hours on end while having needles jammed into your skin seems like great preparation for meetings".

Mastodon is not a covering implementation, it implements just enough of the AS spec to be a Twitter clone. If someone would just read the damn spec and then write a performant fully covering implementation, it could replace: Twitter, Youtube, Instagram, Facebook, Facebook Groups, Facebook Events, Disqus, Meetup, Reddit, Hackernews, Discourse, Slashdot, LiveJournal, etc. Basically everything that is not realtime chat.

@evan use a Signal group.