Mastodon 2.0 - Hackdot

Re:Mastodon 2.0 by michael_storm on Friday October 20, 2017 @09:12PM (#15520135)

Sales, support, marketing, accounting, business ops, software ops, management, HR. Pare those off and you might get something like Mastodon's contributor size after adjusting for scale of user base. Although I doubt many of Mastodon's contributors are full time, so a comparison is difficult.

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Re:Mastodon 2.0 by criddell on Saturday October 21, 2017 @08:13AM (#15521618)

So Twitter is big because it's big?

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Re:Mastodon 2.0 by michael_storm on Saturday October 21, 2017 @01:52PM (#15522715)

I don’t follow. Twitter is big because of all the things I just listed.

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Re:Mastodon 2.0 by gipp on Saturday October 21, 2017 @03:20PM (#15523160)

You just listed its components, the question was about why Twitter needs those things but Mastodon does not.

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Re:Mastodon 2.0 by michael_storm on Saturday October 21, 2017 @06:06PM (#15523882)

Because Twitter is a for-profit business, whereas Mastodon is not.

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Re:Mastodon 2.0 by criddell on Monday October 23, 2017 @08:21AM (#15532590)

And they are up to around $2 billion in losses so far, right?

It sounds like they would be better off just being a Mastodon node.

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