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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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