What's Mastodon precious?
What's Mastodon precious?
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Heres the thing with federation
It will always be more complicated, and lead to smaller segregated communities. This mitigstes the network effect social media services rely on
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The consumer lockin then monetization lockdown cycle always sheds users. I think eventually most federated systems will gain users, albeit slowly.
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This only works if a new centralized network doesnt take its place, Blueskys existence kinda proves thats not always the case
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The proof is that mastodon user base is steadily going up. There hasn't been a giant spike in a while but the barrier to monetization is too high for it to shed users from that. Its more like how wikipedia has outlived google as a resource despite wikipedia not being particularly better now than soon after it started.
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