A tweetstorm manifesto on social networks, public identity, computer security, and advertising's corrosion of society, culture, and self: 0/
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Yesterday, thousands of us began using Mastodon, a delightful newish open-source Twitter alternative. /1
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@twitter becoming increasingly awful—in its social dynamics and its technical user experience—many are looking for alternatives. /21 reply 0 retweets 8 likes -
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Mastodon is an impressive technical achievement: a fully-functional Twitter-alike, written by one guy in a few months. It's lovely. /3pic.twitter.com/7ebpk2OP4u
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I predicted that Mastodon would fail within hours, days, or at most months. Looks like "hours" was right. Here's why. 4/
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"Let's build a new social network!" It sounds like fun. I've contemplated it myself. But, it's technically trivial. Hard part is the biz. 5/
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Only important question to ask about a social network: WHO PAYS FOR IT? And are their interests aligned with yours? 6/
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A closed network, for a topical discussion group, or an organization's internal medium, has limited users, and high value. 7/
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A closed social network is relatively inexpensive to run, and has high value to a specific group of users, who will pay for it. 8/
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For closed networks, the users pay a service provider, whose interest is to make the users happy. This can work. It's Slack's model, e.g. 9/
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But I want to be able to talk to anyone in the world, about anything. Twitter lets me do that. Who pays for it? I don't. 10/
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All successful open-access social networks are paid for by advertisers. The network runs for their benefit, not yours and mine. 11/
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