Mastodawn

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/18/mastodon-users-twitter-elon-musk-social-media

... the author did notice that...

"Other social media services can connect to ActivityPub as well, so no one app can monopolize the broader network that Mastodon is part of, called the 'fediverse'."

Yay!

#fediverse

Thousands fled to Mastodon after Musk bought Twitter. Are they still ‘tooting’?

The decentralized social network has seen user numbers drop in recent months, but tech-savvy users remain passionate

The Guardian

https://www.pcmag.com/opinions/whats-happening-to-twitter-could-never-happen-to-mastodon

"Every few months I see news that a server is shutting down—usually from admin burnout—and users begin casting about for a new home on the fediverse. While creating and managing a server is something people can learn, running a community is actually really hard."

#MaxEddy, 2023

This is a good point. SysOps and moderations are two entirely different skillsets, not always found in the same people. There's a lot of talk about federated moderation to address this.

What's Happening to Twitter Could Never Happen to Mastodon

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

PCMAG

C.W. Smith 🇺🇲Jun 9, 2023

Not to mention that a lot of instances are paid for out of pocket. The bigger it gets the costlier.

Say what you will about how Elon is charging folk for a check mark, Twitter wasn't making ends meet before he took over. I know I heard they have lost 49% of ad revenue, but how much of that has been requoped by folk willing to she'll out cash?

Truth is that maintenance and hosting costs.

@CWSmith
> Say what you will about how Elon is charging folk for a check mark

Moving to a freemium model where people pay for extra features is about the only thing he's done I agree with. But making a sign of account verification one of those features was just dopey, as demonstrated by all the parody accounts that paid for the blue check mark and impersonated him. If they'd rolled out proper verification - like Mastodon has - at the same time, it would have been less of a problem, but...

C.W. Smith 🇺🇲Jun 9, 2023

Verification was always a problem over on Twitter. Hoping the team at Twitter says you can have it over paying for it and having it as a verification of identity is a better way of doing it in general then how it was before.

The parody and other fuckery was just a given no matter how it was handled after Musk bought the place.

C.W. Smith 🇺🇲Jun 9, 2023

https://www.reddit.com/r/LemmyMigration/comments/144voxl/im_confused_if_lemmy_is_like_mastodon_forget_it/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Just bugs me that one of the biggest complaints newbies seem to have about Federated Networks is the decentralized nature that is it's greatest strength.

Like this guy on r/LemmyMigration

I’m confused. If lemmy is like mastodon forget it. No one wants to see a million servers. They need to make lemmy a single entity or it will never work. I tried mastodon after quitting fb, but the multi-server thing was confusing and made it impossible to find anything

Posted in r/LemmyMigration by u/SpareVarious6008 • 10 points and 14 comments

volkris Jun 9, 2023

@CWSmith

Keep in mind that strength vs weakness is dependent on the preferences of the individual user.

For you the advantages of federation outweigh the disadvantages, but for this guy, based on his personal preferences, the disadvantages outweighed.

It’s all about personal tastes.