David Gravanita

@dgdas9
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an account first created when I was 16. can't promise any updates, either insightful or insufferable
David GravanitaApr 12, 2017
VevaApr 12, 2017
Things that make me happy:
- journalists who use the correct information you give them to write their piece
- who don't overdramatize something that doesn’t need to be dramatized
- that check and double check their sources
:heart:
Those journalists get a thank you text :smile:
Show threadDavid GravanitaApr 7, 2017

@niko_in_the_woods and you really only need a couple seconds

nice one

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@niko_in_the_woods haha, lol, not really a game now is it...
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@North Hi!
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@beadsland Let's pick a few social networks, such as Pinterest, Twitter, and Facebook. I don't know of the constraints of GNU Social, but I'd make an uninformed guess that it'd be able to 'copy' all of these platforms in an acceptable way. And, while these networks build on the fundamentals of human interaction, they are very different in nature.

Email is not. The core product, the paradigm of email communication, is fundamentally the same across apps, though I'm not very knowledgeable here.

David GravanitaApr 7, 2017
@[email protected] By no means am I saying Bitcoin or its community is perfect, but your toots seem to have a very binary view of the world. Bitcoin is providing a service, a very important one at that, and replacing one of the core features of national currency (and even if I personally feel that it shouldn't be, who am I to overrule markets), namely, the trust in its value. So yes, how dare bitcoin replace traditional state actors when the latter fail...
Show threadDavid GravanitaApr 7, 2017
@beadsland But there is a fundamental difference between email and GNU social. GNU social allows for completely different kinds of social networks, with some common features (that's my understanding at least). Every consumer-facing email application I've seen hasn't strayed too far from what everyone knows as 'email', even if the protocol can be useful in other ways.
David GravanitaApr 7, 2017
@GinnyMcQueen That's why there should be open borders. It's the only way to guarantee interstate competition, nation states would have a near monopoly on their people otherwise.
Show threadDavid GravanitaApr 7, 2017

Other social platforms may survive with smaller audiences for another reason though: because they are dedicated to a small and limited issue that draws people in.

That is not the case with mastodon. This is a general purpose networking site. Unless there's a shift towards a specific issue in the near future, which I doubt, the network will either gain enough users to be successful, or die off as almost every other social network before it, @JThorne

Show threadDavid GravanitaApr 7, 2017
@JThorne Very few communities survive with few users. A social network's primary function is to help you connect with others, something you can only do if there are others to connect with. And it just so happens that our relationship graph is not a circle, people have different friends with different interests. Network effects: a network survives and thrives if there are lots of users, as many as possible. That's why you try to appeal to as many users as possible, to everyone.