Mastodawn

Mike Masnick ✅Dec 21, 2022

I wrote about how I cannot understand why anyone is interested in joining a new centralized social media platform when we now have a great opportunity to move to protocols instead of platforms. https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/21/why-would-anyone-use-another-centralized-social-media-service-after-this/

Why Would Anyone Use Another Centralized Social Media Service After This?

So, it’s been quite a year for legacy, centralized social media — and all without any really big change to the laws that govern it (yet — the EU’s are coming into force shortly, but pos…

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Michael Dec 21, 2022

@mmasnick personally still expect that re-centralisation will ultimately occur, as it did with email, which is now dominated by a small number of big players, with self hosting almost impossible these days.

I did find these arguments quite compelling:

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2022/11/14/scaling-mastodon/

Hoping I’m wrong though.

Scaling Mastodon is Impossible

Now that Twitter is dying, what can replace it?

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Anathema Device Dec 21, 2022

@michael @mmasnick "self hosting almost impossible"

That's just not true. There are literally thousands of hosting companies, and almost all of them allow you to have your own email addresses, servers, the lot. The fact that most people don't bother, doesn't mean it's not possible or easy to do.

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Michael Dec 21, 2022

@anathema_device @mmasnick lol. I used to self host. Sadly deliverability was an ongoing problem, so now I just pay one of the bigger players.

Of course it’s technically possible to self host email. It’s not even difficult. But it’s a constant battle to ensure your recipients actually receive your emails, and more often than not emails just disappear without trace, rhyme, or reason.

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Alexander The 1st

@michael @anathema_device @mmasnick Right; scalability is why, instead of people managing their own physical servers, whole companies just offload the work to AWS or Azure. At some point, you don't farm your own silicon for transistors, you let someone else do that.