@hj@boilingsteam it sucks when that happens but I learned not to take fedi too seriously or treat it like a cultural archive. Posts here are meant to be eventually ephemeral and that's fine.
@Polychrome@boilingsteam that's a good lesson, the thing is that "mastodon is doomed" is pretty much same as "twitter is doomed". Things are born and things die, so it's important to pass on the DNA. For us it's the ActivityPub (and OStatus). Twitter doesn't have exit strategy, no DNA to pass on, no legacy, just tiny fragments of it. Cathedrals crumble, but bazaars pop up and close, and are ever-shifting. Much like merchants on bazaars are driven by desire for profit, we on fediverse are driven by desire to shitpost.
@boilingsteam Good article, but there are two typos. Please people, for the love of all that is holy run at least a spell check on your blog posts before pushing it out to the public.
Reminds me of Linux on the desktop. A failure for decades-- but I've only been using Linux for my desktop for decades.
This'll be the same, possibly. People complaining about being pushed around vendors, but choosing to stay in jail even when the cell door is left wide open.
@Madagascar_Sky@boilingsteam I don't think these kinds of posts are super helpful. I think a lot of the criticisms are valid and I agree with most of them but I hate the headline and I hate the framing.
Regardless, the fediverse is bigger than mastodon so it's not really my area to comment on.
I agree there are a lot of serious issues with the fediverse as rolled out, you'll find me all over the place saying so. I've even written a lot about how to do it. Even some demos, Golem was one. https://gitlab.com/spritely/golem/blob/master/README.org
My current work is over at Spritely, so I mostly ignore posts like these, and especially when people send them to me. But "X is doomed/dead/crumbling/etc", it's really easy to make that kind of title, and it actually distracts from legitimate criticism that an article may contain imo. Makes me disinterested in it, at least.
They're conflating Mastodon with the Fediverse, and in the worst way:
Will there be simpler and cheaper options? I don’t think so. Mastodon growth is already starting to plateau. All of the 3rd party integrations are happening with ActivityPub, not Mastodon.
Mastodon - the App - was meant to be only one of many. It was never meant to be a monopoly. We already have different applications and servers not running Mastodon - the fediverse is thriving and growing. But the general idea is tha Mastodon as most people understand it ("the Fediverse") is doomed, and that's being fucking dishonest.
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The truth to me is that it's about costs and tradeoffs.
The risks of, say, an instance shutting down are significant, but it's worth it to me for the freedom from the so-called "walled gardens", but I know I'm an outlier: I'm an autistic, ADHD person who was homeschooled... The things that appeal to me and work for me frequently are not mainstream things.
You're right: Mastodon cannot replace Twitter because it is NOT actually what many Twitter users want or will use.
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