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Charles U. Farley

@ajroach42 The most exciting thing for me in a while has been the idea that a scrappy little free-software-based network could potentially become the new global town square. Like, even the possibility has completely changed the conversation, so it's not that important that it actually happens.

It's been hard for me to think about anything else, lately. Even if it's not the Fediverse, the idea of #CoopSocialMedia is in the air.

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Dallas, PE ✌️

@freakazoid @ajroach42 What would be interesting to me if it really took off in popularity, how established players would try to position themselves to monopolize it. Like, I could completely imagine that Google could quickly produce their own Mastodon instance, build it into Chrome, which would instantly become the most popular and stable instance. Apple would jump in 5 years later and add a bunch of Apple-y features that you can only see if you are using their instance through an iPhone.

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