Dare ObasanjoDec 21, 2022

Quick thoughts on Mastodon as a Twitter replacement, it isn’t. It’s missing too many features and too many communities.

However it is an existence proof that millions of Twitter users are open to exploring an alternative.

It means a more complete alternative can grow organically and if it isn’t shy about paying for customer acquisition like TikTok did, could possibly take its place.

https://boingboing.net/2019/08/07/10000-censors.html

Tiktok is valued at $75b, is spending $3m/day on US advertising, and in China, it has been turned into a state propaganda vehicle | Boing Boing

It’s been a year since Chinese social media giant Bytedance relaunched its super-popular app Musica.ly as Tiktok; the company is now valued at $75b, and in the USA it has become a serious cha…

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@carnage4life So what I'm taking from this is that some combination of specific client apps and large server instances are likely to centralize Mastodon because this sort of commercial approach is the only only thing that could fund customer acquisition.

That seems both frustratingly accurate and depressing.

Dec 22, 2022 at 6:33pmWeb