Who has a perspective on the future of Mastodon? Where is it going? Where should it go? Either off-the-cuff opinions or pointers to articles are appreciated.

@ev,

The future of @Mastodon as a major #Fediverse hub and entry-point continues to grow. As you already know, this is fueled by #Web20's dysfunctional business model (#Privacy compromising #SurveillanceCapitalism).

The #Fediverse, which is much larger than @Mastodon, is even growing further -- opening up new frontiers on the backs of #ActivityPub, #ActivityStreams, and #WebFinger.

IMHO -- this is all about an inevitable move towards #DataSpaces as key units of presence on the #Web 😀

@ev,

We are speeding towards a #Web-presence atom that boils down to a single #hyperlink that denotes an entity, entity type, or entity relationship type.

Eons ago, it was a #Web site, and then it shrunk down to a #Blog, and then a #Tweet (or #Toot), and inevitably a single #hyperlink as a conduit to data, information, and knowledge of interest.

There's a stealthy force pulling the #Fediverse and #LODCloud closer 😊

https://lod-cloud.net/ -- Fediverse == SocialMedia chunk

/cc @Mastodon

The Linked Open Data Cloud

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