One trend I keep noticing about interviews with Gargron or any article about “Mastodon” is how often they ask Gargron about “competing” or they write about competing and growth.
Gargron, to his credit, usually semi-dismisses it, but it shows just how lost in the hypercapitalist techno-feudalism sauce tech journos are that they still make it out to be about growth.
It’s been over year since Mastodon and the Fediverse gained mindshare… It’s clear that while they vaguely understand the technical underpinnings, they do not understand the social underpinnings that make it all possible.
It’s like they believe that each Fediverse server is a micro-Twitter that wants to be purchased by a technocorp, and all admins are in it because they want fifty billion users on their instance.
The Fediverse is the “next Twitter” in the same way that the tram is the “next car”.
