Both solve for distributed+decentralized authority with different ideas. Mastodon is an older design, pre-blockchain federation. FC is newer and more a have-cake/eat-it-too design that retains some global affordances which mastodon has to sacrifice.
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One of the things both achieve is making it significantly harder for a “bad emperor” problem to occur at a technical level. Whether you think Elon is good or bad there is no doubt he’s an emperor. Every other conventional platform is also set up for monarchist capture.
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Mastodon allows you to spin up your own instance if the one you’re on sprouts a mini-Elon. FC is promising something called a hub which will be like your own email server.
They don’t address the “good” or “bad” part. They address the “emperor” part.
Not perfect, but something.
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Mastodon is vulnerable to a phenomenon called preferential attachment. Big servers get bigger. Everybody wants to join the biggest server (still mastodon.social I assume? haven’t been back for a couple of years?). Still, you can exit to your own little one.
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Yeah you beat the rush and got lucky. And trust me, the “mostly” will start to not be enough in a bit
For eg I’m not there 🤣
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I did my mastodon tour for a couple of years a while back. Decided it was a dead end for me.
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See my comments later in the thread. The people you don’t like are just on different fediverse servers. Out of sight but not out of the picture.
