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PCMag Apr 18, 2023

Here's an incomplete and unscientific explanation of why Mastodon is safe from Elon-style shenanigans, according to one of our writers. https://www.pcmag.com/opinions/whats-happening-to-twitter-could-never-happen-to-mastodon

What's Happening to Twitter Could Never Happen to Mastodon

An incomplete and unscientific explanation of why Mastodon is safe from Elon-style shenanigans.

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Jeff Moe Apr 18, 2023

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To attack, the attackers will want Mastodon to consolidate. Powers will want few servers they need to exploit.

Small tech companies will launch "friendly" "easy-to-use" proprietary Mastodon instances, which will look community friendly. They will buy up communities that they can.

Major tech companies will embrace, extend, and extinguish to kill off large sections of the network.

"Figures playing games", will continue, cf: I Hunt Sys Admins

https://theintercept.com/document/2014/03/20/hunt-sys-admins/

I Hunt Sys Admins - The Intercept

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Scott Robbins Apr 18, 2023

@jebba @PCMag This is a good point.

Mastodon likes to be compared to email, and I think it’s a good comparison.

Google attempted the same thing with Gmail, and was pretty successful. Outlook probably controls the other large portion of emails for businesses.

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Alfred

@scottrobbins @jebba @PCMag there are already shared lists of servers recommended to be banned. So this is a possible scenario.