 I'm just thinking about this blog post I wrote in 2018. Because even when Twitter makes a good decision, the first sentence comes to mind: Why does the entire world have to wait on the CEO of one US company to make a decision? https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/03/twitter-is-not-a-public-utility/ 9 comments
@Gargron concordo plenamente. às vezes me sinto tolo com tamanha dependência desses aplicativos @Gargron I kinda have to log in here and use my account for once, but after what happened today with Trump's suspension, I'm getting the signal that not even a major corporation like twitter is immune from the problems of smaller communities. I just see the patterns from what happened on CL and also several other communities I was a part of that fell apart in a similar fashion. This may be the first sign of twitter's collapse, though I don't know if it'll lead to decentralization of communities @Gargron Ironically, the Trump ban is exactly what inspired me to look around on Mastodon again after a long time, even though I agree with the ban 100%. @Gargron Or worse, why does no one question why they're making this decision *right now* when it's popular? |
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I don’t know if Masto or even the Fediverse is the answer but I really feel more and more that social media in general should be a public good, funded by the state.
Whenever I think about this I have fantasies of, like, if your Fediverse node meets certain standards, then the state will contribute resources - help to cover hosting/admin time/etc, maybe with some scaling based on the size, maybe with a hard ceiling to help keep any one node from getting too dominant, dunno.
“Being a non-profit” or at least “no ads” is definitely one of those standards.
@Gargron
I don’t know if Masto or even the Fediverse is the answer but I really feel more and more that social media in general should be a public good, funded by the state.
Whenever I think about this I have fantasies of, like, if your Fediverse node meets certain standards, then the state will contribute resources - help to cover hosting/admin time/etc, maybe with some scaling based on the size, maybe with a hard ceiling to help keep any one node from getting too dominant, dunno.