Nour Agha 

I'm loving it here on Fosstodon, but I'm very impressed and excited about the work @nova and @jerry are doing at Hachyderm and Infosec Exchange.

If you're into tech, you're very lucky and not short of excellent options. I imagine a lot more top quality servers will spring up as time goes on, especially within the tech space, and that's what makes the fediverse beautiful.

It's very refreshing to see social media run by professionals, not CEOs and businessmen.

Nov 17, 2022 at 2:17amWeb
Show threadTrevorNov 17, 2022
@Nour @nova @jerry Yes and how long before someone tries to profit on it? Would that be possible? Can it be prevented?
Show threadNour Agha Nov 17, 2022

@tmf1980 @nova @jerry Once the big crowd moves to Mastodon and the attention market shifts here, it's only a matter of time and companies & advertisers will look to monetize Mastodon through premium instances, clients or new ActivityPub platforms (with ads).

But the critical thing here is that due to its decentralized nature, just like email, the users are in control and that's the win. Don't like Gmail? Move to Proton. And still be able to message everyone.

Show threadMartin KellyNov 17, 2022
@nova @Nour @tmf1980 @jerry indeed. Be interesting to see the attempts, and the fediverse reaction to it. Thing is, the commercialised instances will have nothing yo offer the anti commercial ones to act as a counterweight to the reaction to defederation
Show threadJerry 🦙💝🦙Nov 17, 2022
@potatogunkelly @nova @Nour @tmf1980 I already see many security companies setting up accounts on Infosec.exchange. Those are generally not the ones I think will cause is trouble - it’s when/if the ad firms and marketing firms start getting cute with ways to collect money for advertising on the fediverse. I don’t think most instances will react well to that, so I expect to see some “innovation” out of them.
Show threadMartin KellyNov 17, 2022
@tmf1980 @Nour @nova @jerry agreed. Non-ad corporate devrel accounts, along with chipping in to server running costs, seems mild on a case by case basis, other than that I suspect folks will have to tread very lightly
Show threadTrevorNov 17, 2022
@potatogunkelly @Nour @nova @jerry thanks for all this. Very helpful. And, because this is all new to me, it's a helpful model to think about for other forms of community building.
Show threadchakkerz 🤨Nov 17, 2022
@Nour @nova @jerry ... at least one is a CISO though ...
Show threadJerry 🦙💝🦙Nov 17, 2022
@chakkerz @Nour @nova try not to hold that against me…