@aurynn @vmstan And we thank you very much for that!

@aurynn they keep saying that like it's a bad thing and I'm confused

@aurynn And because a bunch of us randos prefer it to whatever billionaire techbro bollocks is currently on offer.

@aurynn It survives because shockingly, there are enough people not attempting to exploit it and other people for money

@aurynn I like how we're not dependent on VCs throwing gobs of money.

We just have people donating to keep the servers going, which apparently keeps happening all the time.

@aurynn Of course, it will not survive in this form. For instance, IRC and Jabber are almost dead by now. Two examples of open platforms of the past. But there will be something else, open-source and maintened by passioned admins.

@aurynn this question always comes between corpo and free, because people do not compute how someone might provide service for minimum price or truly free.
I always wanted to dig more into fediverse, and Twitter crisis gave me push I needed. However I plan to stick with it. It is not perfect, but it is fun, interesting, it has really solid feature set.
And what is most importantly it seem to attract that kind of crowd I vibe best with.
If I do social networking, let it be #Fediverse

@aurynn "you can't stop the signal, Mal" - Mr Universe

@aurynn if anything the growth of attractive federated options like Calkey are only going to be further boosted by other stuff coming online. For a long time it was Twitter or Mastodon. Now people are opening up themselves to the possibility of trying something new again and that helps stuff like calkey and miskey.

@aurynn @evan I agree, but I think the two opinions talk past each other to a degree:

“Survive” likely means something else to people posing that question, than I suspect it does to you.

By the definition of the first group, we might not survive.

And by the definition of the second group, that same outcome might not only meet the definition of survive, but perhaps even be “Thrive”.

@aurynn also, good riddance; fuck techbros

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@aurynn fedi has been surviving techbro bullshit for years, why ask the question now?

@aurynn I don’t really care about merging with the twitter users at this point—people who use mastodon know what they want, people who still use twitter know what they want, and I feel either won’t change too much. I’ve learned my lesson at this point. Stay clear of profit-driven social networks.

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