@davidallengreen Twitter is just a multitude of echo chambers. I barely had any constructive exchanges with people on Twitter anymore.
Even mild disagreements lead to people insulting and blocking.
Being on Twitter means empowering Elon Musk's far right propaganda machine, making him richer with our free labour.
Actually, if the whole pro-democracy camp, and all the politicians, celebs etc, moved over here, we would have a better public town square.
I agree David. The business model ($$$) of commercial social media is to drive interactions regardless of the quaility. Because Mastodon has no requirement for such a business model, it has been designed to facilitate higher quality interactions and therefore improve users experience.
@jimwrinkle @aristeon @davidallengreen
(New here, trying to understand). But mastadon does have a business model - one based on generous people running their own servers and crowdfunding ? If “your” server fails / shuts down / runs out of money etc does that mean all your stuff is lost ? Certainly saw lots of people asking for donations last week when their capacity was breached.
@gideondavies @aristeon @davidallengreen
But as Mastodon is not a business it is "free and open-source software for running self-hosted social networking services"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(software)
hosted by kind folks and organisations who do so voluntarily. Unlike other social media platforms, here YOU are not the product, so it is not paid for by advertisers etc. Users assisting with that funding lightens the load.
I can't answer your other question but I am sure others will be able to
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