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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*Most of the internet* is paid for by advertisers—which is rapidly eroding our society, culture, and selves. It's an epic disaster. 12/
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Politics is now driven by the needs of non-political advertisers; artistic culture is increasingly trivial; personal coherence is harder 13/
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Arms race between ad tech, inventing ever-more-powerful ways spy on your browswing, and countermeasures, makes more&more web sites fail. 14/
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Popular revolt against the advertising-based web, or technical collapse, within a few years? I hope so! 15/
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But what's the alternative? Users must pay. Via subscriptions, donations, or micropayments? But no one knows how to make these work. 16/
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