Mastodon is an incredibly rare opportunity for open-source, non-profit, advertising-free, decentralised software to be a real contender in a category – and, if it continues to grow, even to pull many other social networks into being part of (or interoperable with) the fediverse.

It's strange to me that this isn't mentioned more in the endless opinions about features, onboarding, UX, "vibes" etc.

@tomw unless .social becomes so huge that it gets purchased?
@acm_redfox It's run by a non-profit so I don't think that's possible.
@tomw interesting. have seen a lot of worry about it, but I'm in no position to say.