Mastodon Is Better Than Twitter: Elevator Pitch

Re:Mastodon Is Better Than Twitter: Elevator Pitch by randomsearch on Saturday August 18, 2018 @01:16PM (#17789462)

To summarise what you've said in one sentence: "mastodon is a technology, not a product" - it doesn't have a business model, a way to scale and grow like a business.

And if it did, well it'd be just another commercial social network, and most of them completely suck.

Technology is not the solution to this problem.

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Re:Mastodon Is Better Than Twitter: Elevator Pitch by codesections on Saturday August 18, 2018 @02:19PM (#17789772)

> "mastodon is a technology, not a product" - it doesn't have a business model, a way to scale and grow like a business.

I'd agree with 2/3rds of that. Mastodon is a technology, not a product, and it doesn't have a business model.

But that does not mean that it can't scale and grow—it means that it doesn't have any way to turn scaling and growing into money. email is a technology; javascript is a technology, the microchip is a technology. All of those technologies have seen tremendous growth, and none of them have made money (though products using them certainly have).

I suspect that, if Mastodon grows, it will be precisely because it is a technology, not a product. Making money isn't the only way to grow.

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Re:Mastodon Is Better Than Twitter: Elevator Pitch by randomsearch on Saturday August 18, 2018 @01:19PM (#17789475)

Further: I just looked at Mastodon.social.

No, my non-nerd friends do not wish to "Join the Federation!"

Not to knock what Mastodon are doing, rather to criticise the idea that it's a social network for everyone.

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