Bastian AllgeierThe success of Mastodon and the Fediverse is not the success of a new platform. It’s a potentially groundbreaking change for the internet. No traditional social media platform will be able to compete with this anymore once the network effects kick in here. And it’s looking very good at the moment.
Paul Robert Lloyd 🐢@bastianallgeier Call me cynical (because I am!) but people’s expectations regarding Mastodon are getting out of hand. Will the Fediverse also herald world peace!? 😉
Scale is an anti-pattern; it’s those very network effects that cause all the issues. Twitter was groundbreaking (and an enjoyable place to socialise) when it was a niche platform, too.
The grass is always greener on the other side, but we’re still fundamentally treading the same path.
@paulrobertlloyd I should try to write an article how I mean this. The fediverse is about scaling horizontally, not vertically. The network effect will imho lead to more clients, more servers, more fediverse applications. It’s already starting. There will be the same shit here as everywhere, but there will also be peaceful islands and small fediverse villages that do their own thing. I really mean the global infrastructure aspect of it. Not the obvious problems of huge, Twitter-like instances.
Michaele Cutaya@bastianallgeier @paulrobertlloyd yes been reading and thinking about this a lot –actually little else for the past month as my growing pile of due writing shows. it's not just a new platform, it's a different way to do social media. it's harder, demands more efforts to be sure, but that's because no one is making profit from it. That it can expand and contract easily and organically is quite fascinating. to start from scratch is daunting, but it's about setting good foundations. very exciting!