Bunny KidReally though, why does mastodon have to be the "twitter killer"? Can't it just be a thing?
Capitalism makes it so natural for us to rhink in terms of scarcity that usually doesn't exist or doesn't *have* to exist.
inmysocks Of Doom, Naked KSC@JillianMaywhether yes, this seems to be kind of the point of how the federation is set up, it doesn't actually compete with anything else since it is made to work *with* other things.
@JillianMaywhether I wish this was easier to explain to people. I blame a lifetime of living in a capitalist society or something like that. I wonder if people who haven't been indoctrinated into a capitalist system would have the same problems accepting it.
Minuit@JillianMaywhether I'm hoping very much the general population of twitter doesn't move over here- people who love the twitter, stay over there cause here is great so far without them =P
Ian Littman@JillianMaywhether But if we don't have winner-take-all market dynamics for a service that has low barriers to entry, HOW WILL THE CHILDREN SURVIVE? THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!1!eleven!
fuz 🦆🏴🇮🇪🇪🇺because too many daft writers have a desperate need to promote some kind of conflict to draw their attention
Spooky@JillianMaywhether I think this is a really interesting point! It is a very capitalistic concept of devouring the other. I like it as it's own thing. Also, if it became a replacement or perhaps as big, I worry it would change for the worse? #Paranoia perhaps?
Doc Edward Morbius ❌@JillianMaywhether Because news needs a narrative, even if it's a false one, to sell and relate a story. And conflict is the simplest narrative there is: A vs. B.
So: Ignore the media, or at least that part. Look for legitimate gripes. The stuff about nmap scans and network security, the Japanese Influx and what that means for language tools (translation, filters), scaling generally. There's real questions that are going around.
Proving open works is the narrative.
will@JillianMaywhether oh no Twitter shouldn't die per say. just become obsolete, like Nazi 8-tracks.