Happy ninth Mastodon Won't Survive Day to all who celebrate!
https://mashable.com/article/mastodon-wont-survive

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Six reasons Mastodon won't survive

The hot new thing in social media has some big problems.

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@rysiek sad Lance Ulanoff noises
@revengeday I will say he admitted he was wrong, here on fed, last year under my thread about it:
https://mastodon.social/@Lance_Ulanoff/114285108628269898

@rysiek
"This is no BlueSky"

Said like it's a bad thing to not be scraping everything for ai, or to be beholden to crypto bros.
@revengeday

@xinit @rysiek @revengeday his comment is a year old, when bluesky's nefarious pivot was signposted, but less clear.
@liquidlamp
Fair, but we all knew they were going to have to bring VC money in. Even in the early days of Twitter, it was pretty obvious to many that there needed to be a way to generate revenue to pay for infrastructure and salaries. Monetize or die, more or less.
@rysiek @revengeday