Gregory's Server
Here's your irregular reminder that:
Twitter was a multi-billion dollar company with thousands of employees.
Mastodon is a niche hobbyist product run by volunteers
The fact that we're being seen as a viable alternative to them is an admission that a federated, decentralized future is not only possible, but desirable.
Mastodon is not one thing, or one place. It's a network of many things and many places. We don't have a spokesperson (I mean, there's me. I'm the official spokesperson for 💯 of the fediverse, but beyond me there is no spokesperson) we don't have consensus on moderation or blocking or tools or what is good and what is bad. Some of us are professional SREs and Sysadmins, some of us aren't. Some of our instances have been around for 5+ years, some won't be here in six months.
And that's good! All of it, every last bit of it is good.
We're wrestling power away from the billionaire class, in real time, and reclaiming it for the People.
@ajroach42
Depends who "them" is?
I don't think that e. g. a Volkswagen cares about the decentralized approach.
They'll embrace it fully if a Cie, like Red Hat did with Linux, comes around and puts a commercial glazing around it. A bit like what Jack with his Bluesky is trying to do. 😉
These users are opportunists. And then there're others who do see an opportunity.
We'll see. It's exciting, anyway you look at it. We're witnessing a piece of history being written.
@ajroach42
Depends who "them" is?
I don't think that e. g. a Volkswagen cares about the decentralized approach.
They'll embrace it fully if a Cie, like Red Hat did with Linux, comes around and puts a commercial glazing around it. A bit like what Jack with his Bluesky is trying to do. 😉
These users are opportunists. And then there're others who do see an opportunity.