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Having tried mastodon seriously, including running an instance, I don’t think it’s a good alternative. I suspect federation is fun but an un-twitter pattern. It is to twitter what multicultural models are to melting pot models. Twitter has been the best sort of melting pot.
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The killer feature of twitter is the global-feed melting pot serendipity which is really hard to replicate with fediverse cross-server talk. Melting-pot serendipity takes scale (random “over-hearing” statistics), but FC shows it kicks in at much smaller scales than I thought.
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Competitors that already have scale (Instagram etc) really don’t have the right architecture to trigger twitter type dynamics. They have their own kinds but ime not a substitute for twitter’s. Also you want to make a move to the future not the past. Platforms —-> Protocols.
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Cross-post from FC Shitjecture:* The difference between a protocol and a platform is that on a protocol you collect rent when people are on the move in some way, while on a platform you can collect rent even when people are sitting around doing nothing * shitpost-conjecture
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Whatever your specific loyalties or hostilities to musk, and whatever your emotional or pragmatic attachment to any following you’ve built here, there’s more than just political shifts (feudal —> monarchical platform dynamics) underway. There is a technological shift underway.
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Platforms are lava now. You want things that don’t lend themselves as easily to “fixed real-estate” metaphors. Protocols allow anyone to add “territory” (email servers are an old example though now a bad one due to spam-forced oligopoly). FC plans something similar called Hubs
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“The platform is lava” 🤣
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