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 Over the past 5 years, three things have wrecked the previous social media model: 1. Social media is becoming more transient and generational. In other words, Big Social cannot be assumed to be here forever. 13 comments
This shift from Big Social to the Fediverse has been years in the making, iterated many times over. However, it looks sudden -- and most organizations are not prepared for this change! The social media industry was once worth $1 trillion -- perhaps that's now vanished! Some people might dismiss this as a bubble, but that's not the case. A bubble implies imagined value. During this past decade, social media was a critical aspect of communications. The decimation of social media is actually worse than a bubble. It's purposeful destruction of the public square. And it was possible because Big Social claimed the public square as their property. The real-world impact of the Fediverse is the reclamation of the public square on behalf of the common good. Like I have a hard time believing that governments, companies, non-profits, etc. are just going to say, "Well, time to stop providing the world with updates -- Elon Musk is taking his ball and going home." This is what might happen: @EnricoAriis This is why everyone should know that the Fediverse is bigger than Mastodon. *Bleep bloop* I have unrolled this Mastodon thread for you :) . You can find it here: https://threadunroller.com/thread/3708f122-6f1c-4ec7-aaca-bab3d09c8aa2 @atomicpoet Maybe it makes you happy to know that the German national public agency @bfdi started running a Mastodon server for all public authorities, including state and local authorities. They stopped their Twitter account. |
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The Fediverse is the biggest communications revolution in a generation because it attacks Big Social in the following ways:
1. It welcomes transience and generational change
2. It requires less government regulation
3. It doesn't require predictable revenue streams to operate