Hagfish fancier v4.02.01And I'll say again that the real genius of mastodon/fedverse/activitypub is that it costs money. The implications of that are huge and I don't think get talked about enough. Like, it might not be a lot, and not personally cost you money, but it is costing your server admin money. And that changes things pretty fundamentally.
Like, unfettered growth is no longer desirable, because it's not making you money. Once you remove adtech from the conversation things change, and in fact are inverted in some ways. There is no longer the question of yeah these people are assholes but they are making me a bunch of money. They are now costing you money, and you are in the position of having to decide if you want to support asshole behavior with your own actual money
Like, unfettered growth is no longer desirable, because it's not making you money. Once you remove adtech from the conversation things change, and in fact are inverted in some ways. There is no longer the question of yeah these people are assholes but they are making me a bunch of money. They are now costing you money, and you are in the position of having to decide if you want to support asshole behavior with your own actual money
Bruce Elrick