Gabe RiveraAssorted thoughts on Mastodon and the Fediverse. (Thought I'd offer them up here for people to tell me I'm wrong before recycling them on T*itter):
š Some "communities" are rather well-represented here. Some unsurprising tech crowds present in large numbers: future-of-web types, people into open source and open standards, and industry-skeptic/social-justicey folks. The infosec crowd is fairly-well-represented here too. And as I said before, basically every notable blogger from the year 2005 is here!
š Startup/venture folks are not here in large numbers. (Yes, @hunterwalk and @mgsiegler are present!) Overall the chicken/egg problem is not cracked for these folks.
š Meanwhile, it's kinda funny how crypto people are entirely absent in the Fediverse, given their professed love of decentralization. (Perhaps they were not not so much into decentralization but rather recentralization of wealth around themselves!)
Ev WilliamsI talked to one crypto-centric friend who doesnāt like the fediverse because itās not the *right* way to decentralize from a technical perspective. š¤·āāļø
@ev Yeah, I mean, sure, it involves centralization at a smaller scale, but, the advantages should be clear too, and it's tentatively working!
Dan York@gaberivera @ev Well, I think some of the crypto-centric folks donāt like Mastodon becauseā¦ thereās no #cryptocurrency involved! š¤£
I meanā¦ theyāve been going on and on about how everything needs to be decentralized.. but their implication has always been that #cryptocurrencies would be at the heart of that #decentralization.
And here the Fediverse is showing VERY clearly that you CAN have decentralizationā¦ *WITHOUT* cryptocurrencies! š
(So maybe theyāre wrong?š¤¦āāļø)