Several new social networks tried the donation model. Wikipedia is the only large site I can think of which makes this work. (How?) 22/
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Mastodon is donation-supported. If every user gave a few dollars per month at https://www.patreon.com/user?u=619786 it would succeed. 23/
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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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Buy a domain, start a blog, set up a Mastodon instance, stake a homestead on the web, spread out :) Relying on Twitter is a mug's game IMO
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Yup! I do have presence elsewhere… But Twitter is important to me, and millions of other people
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