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Re:Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid is a platform designed to re-dece... by yogthos on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @09:34AM (#17457165)
Compare Twitter with Mastodon Social. Twitter employs 3000 people and it's a hugely complex piece of software. Meanwhile, Mastodon is mostly built by a single guy, and a small volunteer community.

Majority of that complexity is not there to make user experience better. I actively use both platforms, and I find that Mastodon provides a better user experience in pretty much every way. The UI is snappier, it has better features for interacting with others, it doesn't restrict the API, and so on.

The main cost of Twitter comes from building tools to monetize and exploit the users of the platform.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid is a platform designed to re-dece... by BerislavLopac on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @11:26AM (#17457740)
> The main cost of Twitter comes from building tools to monetize and exploit the users of the platform.

Which is precisely my point. Or at least one half of it.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid is a platform designed to re-dece... by yogthos on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @11:41AM (#17457813)
Yup, I'm just expanding on that to illustrate with a concrete example that you don't need megacorps to build these kinds of platforms in practice.
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