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One reason I like mastodon is that it’s only the second social media product, after twitter, to even attempt to enable the creation of publics. Unlike communities, publics exist in the interstices of walled compounds rather than within them.
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But publics are so much harder to control! This makes them less attractive to many of the people in the position to make such a choice
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AWebFactory believes in communities cuz we reject a fundamentalist marketing vision of groups of human beings. We embrace communities that work together and actually get things done. Long live communities! And long live the public that is more than cannon fodder for marketeers.