How Long Can Mastodon Resist Centralization?
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"The "legacy" Mastodon network is unsafe and overly restrictive, and the mainstream will not force itself to unsee this in the way that the FOSS community has. If Eugen Rochko won't accommodate a centralized and consumer-focused mindset, he will ultimately be usurped as primary steward of the project."
The author has some interesting things to say about Vivaldi Social in this blog post.
https://popzazzle.blogspot.com/2022/11/how-long-can-mastodon-resist-centralisation.html
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Also, it looks as if Tumblr wants to come to the Mastodon party.
"Tumblr to add support for ActivityPub, the social protocol powering Mastodon and other apps"
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@fjc1029
'Mastodon' cannot be centralised at all.
It is 'only' an open source software that runs on many thousands of servers around the world.
As with 'Jabber/XMPP'. -
@ingolftopf Did you read this in the article I linked? "Last week, for example, we saw Vivaldi creating Vivaldi Social, using the Mastodon software but clearly aiming to circumvent some of the problems of decentralisation.
Brands have created what are intended to be "centralized Mastodons" in the past, but they've had very non-mainstream moderation biases, and have thus been unsuitable for the average Twitter user."
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@fjc1029 said in How Long Can Mastodon Resist Centralization?:
"...but clearly aiming to circumvent some of the problems of decentralisation."
The author does not demonstrate how this is the case. As nearly as I can tell, Vivaldi only made it easy for its community members to sign up.
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@fjc1029 said in How Long Can Mastodon Resist Centralization?:
but they've had very non-mainstream moderation biases, and have thus been unsuitable for the average Twitter user."
I do not see it that way,
consider it very suitable -
Interesting answer about this topic from the guy who built Mastodon:
"As more people join the platform, will it be more difficult for it to remain decentralized?
There are always certain centralization forces at play. It is more cost-efficient to have more users on one server. And people tend to gravitate to servers that are seen as more trustworthy. The choice of the server is often difficult for people—this is the one big difference between something like Twitter and something like Mastodon. How do people choose an email provider? They often go to Gmail because it’s the biggest one out there. But I'm not using Gmail, and I can still use email just fine. It is not an irredeemable situation. And there’s no single Mastodon server with the proportions of Gmail."
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I composed a long reply what I think about that URL, but let me put this short...
This is "Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt" in action
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@fjc1029 said in How Long Can Mastodon Resist Centralization?:
"As more people join the platform, will it be more difficult for it to remain decentralized?
Mastodon's founder and main developer Eugen Rochko has had statements imputed to him here before, without evidence, that make no sense, like the one above.
Several instances have now enlarged their servers or made recording stops.
There was and is no question of abandoning decentralisation or federation.
Such voluntary, committed people should not be accused of such statements without evidence. -
@ingolftopf said in How Long Can Mastodon Resist Centralization?:
@fjc1029 said in How Long Can Mastodon Resist Centralization?:
"As more people join the platform, will it be more difficult for it to remain decentralized?
Mastodon's founder and main developer Eugen Rochko has had statements imputed to him here before, without evidence, that make no sense, like the one above.
⋮FYI The Man Behind Mastodon, Eugen Rochko, Built It for This Moment | WIRED