re: #16 Thanos

A fairly cogent article about why the Fediverse is flailing right now, and why it might be destined to become B-Chan version X…

Op-ed: Why the great #TwitterMigration didn’t quite pan out

Mastodon is at risk of falling into the trap that a lot of free/open source software does, where the idea of the software being “free as in speech” is expected to outweigh or explain away deficiencies in its usefulness. However, this ignores three salient facts:

Which is why Facebook running a server is actually trouble for the ecosystem. If they make it workable, and devote Facebook levels of hardware at it, there will be one server that lots of people will join, and it will eventually choke off the rest of it.