For Mastodon to be an adequate twitter replacement, it needs a billion users, roughly. Will a billion people donate? I doubt it. 24/
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Mastodon was huge fun yesterday; it was many of the best people from twitter, talking uninhibitedly, without boring and nasty ones. 25/
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Today it's mostly unusable; the server can't handle the load. That's with an influx of thousands. What happens if millions arrive? 26/
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If a web site could charge users for access *without requiring credit-card sign-up* ("micropayments"), it would solve this problem. 27/
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Micropayments are technically very difficult (unlike the software for a twitter-alike). I hope someone makes this work; no one has. 28/
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A long-term, publicly-visible identity is THE KEY FEATURE of Twitter, I think. I've put a lot of work into mine… About to lose that? 29/
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To invest serious effort in a social network identity, you should believe that it will still exist years from now. How? 30/
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YOU SHOULD OWN your network identity! You can't entrust it to Facebook (evil!) or Twitter (collapsing?) or Mastodon (collapsing!). 31/
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You should be certain you can move your identity to a new provider, without losing your followers, or any content you created. 32/
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You should pay a cloud provider a few dollars a month to run YOUR software that maintains YOUR identity, that YOU can move anywhere. 33/
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If YOU pay for portable identity maintenance, your provider's incentive is to protect YOUR privacy and security. Or you'll move. 34/
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If YOU own your network identity, YOU—not some corporation—can choose what information to see, and who you want to interact with! 35/
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Portable network identity is somewhat technically difficult; and probably requires micropayments as synergistic ecosystem, as well. 36/
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