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bobjonkman: bobjonkman favorited something by lnxw48a1: https://500ish.com/mastodon-brought-a-protocol-to-a-product-fight-ba9fda767c6a #Medium link; don't be surprised if it does weird things before showing you the article. "Mastodon brought a protocol to a product fight" > Yes, yes, the network is under immense strain as people flee the Elon strain infecting Twitter. But come on, there are folks who really believe this is going to replace, or even stand alongside Twitter, as a massively scaled social network? I call bullshit. While it’s impressive that millions of users have apparently given Mastodon a try, the product is far too slapdash and clunky to keep folks engaged. A lump of coal. No, it isn't meant to be a #Twitter replacement. Keep your Twitter account until you no longer want it--or the company closes and the site shuts down--you can use Mastodon alongside Twitter. And the #Fediverse networks are much more than just #Mastodon. Don't think you have experienced the network and all it has to offer if all you've done is briefly tried to use Mastodon, because you haven't experienced it. > I’ve somehow avoided signing up for the service up until now. Largely because signing up was and is so comically obtuse — pick your server everyone, hope you choose wisely! Have you not used e-mail? It works the same way. You pick a server, such as Gmail or Outlook dot com, and sign up. Please tell me you realize that the people you communicate with are not all on the same e-mail service that you use. > But, but, it’s not a product, it’s a protocol. Yeah, that’s a nice thing to say. And to believe in. But I truly believe the ship has sadly sailed for such idealism in this space. Jack Dorsey can talk about how this should have been what Twitter was from the get go until he’s bluesky in the face. It’s just not going to happen. And he’s more to blame for that than most everyone else. As is he for the Elon element of this current equation. But that’s a different story. Okay, so how about this story: Twitter has only been profitable two or three years of its entire history. Since it started, it has existed by burning through investors' funds. Eventually, with or without Elon Musk's ownership, that runs out. Without such funding, their corporate-centralized ( #corpocentric ) model cannot exist very long. And same for their centralized competitors, such as Post.news, Gab, Parler, and so on. What is left is either #federated or #peer-to-peer approaches, where no single entity is responsible for funding and managing the entire network. So whether it is the #Fediverse ( with #ActivityPub and #OStatus and their successors ) & the Federation ( with #Diaspora ) or #Bluesky, or #Twister, or #NOSTR, the eventual future of #socnets is #decentralized, if not entirely peer-to-peer unless a national government takes over Facebook and Twitter in order to provide effectively unlimited resources. It is the protocol that makes it possible for thousands or millions of instances to displace and replace one big centralized instance. 1/2
bobjonkman's status on Thursday, 05-Jan-2023 15:30:59 EST
bobjonkman favorited something by lnxw48a1: https://500ish.com/mastodon-brought-a-protocol-to-a-product-fight-ba9fda767c6a #Medium link; don't be surprised if it does weird things before showing you the article. "Mastodon brought a protocol to a product fight" > Yes, yes, the network is under immense strain as people flee the Elon strain infecting Twitter. But come on, there are folks who really believe this is going to replace, or even stand alongside Twitter, as a massively scaled social network? I call bullshit. While it’s impressive that millions of users have apparently given Mastodon a try, the product is far too slapdash and clunky to keep folks engaged. A lump of coal. No, it isn't meant to be a #Twitter replacement. Keep your Twitter account until you no longer want it--or the company closes and the site shuts down--you can use Mastodon alongside Twitter. And the #Fediverse networks are much more than just #Mastodon. Don't think you have experienced the network and all it has to offer if all you've done is briefly tried to use Mastodon, because you haven't experienced it. > I’ve somehow avoided signing up for the service up until now. Largely because signing up was and is so comically obtuse — pick your server everyone, hope you choose wisely! Have you not used e-mail? It works the same way. You pick a server, such as Gmail or Outlook dot com, and sign up. Please tell me you realize that the people you communicate with are not all on the same e-mail service that you use. > But, but, it’s not a product, it’s a protocol. Yeah, that’s a nice thing to say. And to believe in. But I truly believe the ship has sadly sailed for such idealism in this space. Jack Dorsey can talk about how this should have been what Twitter was from the get go until he’s bluesky in the face. It’s just not going to happen. And he’s more to blame for that than most everyone else. As is he for the Elon element of this current equation. But that’s a different story. Okay, so how about this story: Twitter has only been profitable two or three years of its entire history. Since it started, it has existed by burning through investors' funds. Eventually, with or without Elon Musk's ownership, that runs out. Without such funding, their corporate-centralized ( #corpocentric ) model cannot exist very long. And same for their centralized competitors, such as Post.news, Gab, Parler, and so on. What is left is either #federated or #peer-to-peer approaches, where no single entity is responsible for funding and managing the entire network. So whether it is the #Fediverse ( with #ActivityPub and #OStatus and their successors ) & the Federation ( with #Diaspora ) or #Bluesky, or #Twister, or #NOSTR, the eventual future of #socnets is #decentralized, if not entirely peer-to-peer unless a national government takes over Facebook and Twitter in order to provide effectively unlimited resources. It is the protocol that makes it possible for thousands or millions of instances to displace and replace one big centralized instance. 1/2
bobjonkman: RT @lnxw48a1 http://status.hackerposse.com/url/24031 #Medium link; don't be surprised if it does weird things before showing you the article. "Mastodon brought a protocol to a product fight" > Yes, yes, the network is under immense strain as people flee the Elon strain infecting Twitter. But come on, there are folks who really believe this is going to replace, or even stand a https://gs.jonkman.ca/notice/1107876
bobjonkman's status on Thursday, 05-Jan-2023 15:30:53 EST
RT @lnxw48a1 http://status.hackerposse.com/url/24031 #Medium link; don't be surprised if it does weird things before showing you the article. "Mastodon brought a protocol to a product fight" > Yes, yes, the network is under immense strain as people flee the Elon strain infecting Twitter. But come on, there are folks who really believe this is going to replace, or even stand a…
lnxw48a1: http://status.hackerposse.com/url/24031 #Medium link; don't be surprised if it does weird things before showing you the article. "Mastodon brought a protocol to a product fight" > Yes, yes, the network is under immense strain as people flee the Elon strain infecting Twitter. But come on, there are folks who really believe this is going to replace, or even stand alongside Twitt https://nu.federati.net/notice/3418994
lnxw48a1's status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2022 21:20:57 EST
http://status.hackerposse.com/url/24031 #Medium link; don't be surprised if it does weird things before showing you the article. "Mastodon brought a protocol to a product fight" > Yes, yes, the network is under immense strain as people flee the Elon strain infecting Twitter. But come on, there are folks who really believe this is going to replace, or even stand alongside Twitt…
lnxw48a1: An article I recently read talked about the copyright battles of the late 1990s as instructive to what #decentralized, #federated and #peer-to-peer networks will face if and when we become threatening to the big #corpocentric networks. I think it is something we need to think about. Unfortunately, some parts of the #Fediverse (primarily, but not exclusively #Mastodon) have mar https://nu.federati.net/notice/3325338
lnxw48a1's status on Thursday, 23-Jul-2020 14:43:40 EDT
An article I recently read talked about the copyright battles of the late 1990s as instructive to what #decentralized, #federated and #peer-to-peer networks will face if and when we become threatening to the big #corpocentric networks. I think it is something we need to think about. Unfortunately, some parts of the #Fediverse (primarily, but not exclusively #Mastodon) have mar…
steve: RT @downey Grateful to hear @cwebber talk about #copyleft & #decentralized tools like #ActivityPub at #CopyleftConf Brussels.#FreeSoftware #FLOSS #FOSS #OpenSource
steve's status on Monday, 04-Feb-2019 08:40:12 EST
RT @downey Grateful to hear @cwebber talk about #copyleft & #decentralized tools like #ActivityPub at #CopyleftConf Brussels.#FreeSoftware #FLOSS #FOSS #OpenSource
steve: steve favorited something by downey: Grateful to hear @cwebber talk about #copyleft & #decentralized tools like #ActivityPub at #CopyleftConf Brussels.#FreeSoftware #FLOSS #FOSS #OpenSource
steve's status on Monday, 04-Feb-2019 08:40:11 EST
steve favorited something by downey: Grateful to hear @cwebber talk about #copyleft & #decentralized tools like #ActivityPub at #CopyleftConf Brussels. #FreeSoftware #FLOSS #FOSS #OpenSource
downey: Grateful to hear @cwebber talk about #copyleft & #decentralized tools like #ActivityPub at #CopyleftConf Brussels.#FreeSoftware #FLOSS #FOSS #OpenSource
downey's status on Monday, 04-Feb-2019 05:06:05 EST
Grateful to hear @cwebber talk about #copyleft & #decentralized tools like #ActivityPub at #CopyleftConf Brussels. #FreeSoftware #FLOSS #FOSS #OpenSource
rozzin: rozzin favorited something by bes: Great talk by Katharina Nocun about social networks at #32c3: "What are the real killer features of Open Source, decentralized social networks? I just told you, #OpenSource, #decentralized, #nonCorporate, #privacyAware. Facebook will not copy that." Early uncut version of the talk: https://status.hackerposse.com/url/9576
rozzin's status on Monday, 15-Feb-2016 01:55:14 EST
rozzin favorited something by bes: Great talk by Katharina Nocun about social networks at #32c3: "What are the real killer features of Open Source, decentralized social networks? I just told you, #OpenSource, #decentralized, #nonCorporate, #privacyAware. Facebook will not copy that." Early uncut version of the talk: https://status.hackerposse.com/url/9576
mmn: RT @bes Great talk by Katharina Nocun about social networks at #32c3: "What are the real killer features of Open Source, decentralized social networks? I just told you, #OpenSource, #decentralized, #nonCorporate, #privacyAware. Facebook will not copy that." Early uncut version of the talk: http://bit.ly/1PxTDgk
mmn's status on Wednesday, 30-Dec-2015 15:44:50 EST
RT @bes Great talk by Katharina Nocun about social networks at #32c3: "What are the real killer features of Open Source, decentralized social networks? I just told you, #OpenSource, #decentralized, #nonCorporate, #privacyAware. Facebook will not copy that." Early uncut version of the talk: http://bit.ly/1PxTDgk
bes: Great talk by Katharina Nocun about social networks at #32c3: "What are the real killer features of Open Source, decentralized social networks? I just told you, #OpenSource, #decentralized, #nonCorporate, #privacyAware. Facebook will not copy that." Early uncut version of the talk: http://bit.ly/1PxTDgk
bes's status on Wednesday, 30-Dec-2015 15:34:25 EST
Great talk by Katharina Nocun about social networks at #32c3: "What are the real killer features of Open Source, decentralized social networks? I just told you, #OpenSource, #decentralized, #nonCorporate, #privacyAware. Facebook will not copy that." Early uncut version of the talk: http://bit.ly/1PxTDgk
cjbprime: RT @okTurtles A #decentralized version of GitHub cannot be silenced. Good thing there is one: @GitTorrent by @cjbprime! https://twitter.com/mikko/status/608221631958413312
cjbprime's status on Thursday, 11-Jun-2015 10:28:54 EDT
RT @okTurtles A #decentralized version of GitHub cannot be silenced. Good thing there is one: @GitTorrent by @cjbprime! https://twitter.com/mikko/status/608221631958413312