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Re:Mastodon Is Better Than Twitter: Elevator Pitch by simonh on Saturday August 18, 2018 @02:23PM (#17789793)
>In 10 years, noone will care about twitter.

If they won’t care about Twitter, why should they care about an open source clone with no users?

It’s also not true of all tech platforms. It’s not true of desktop operating systems for example. Today the desktop is dominated by Apple and Microsoft. Who dominated it 30 years ago? So there’s nothing inevitable about these things.

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Re:Mastodon Is Better Than Twitter: Elevator Pitch by antidesitter on Saturday August 18, 2018 @02:30PM (#17789825)
> If they won’t care about Twitter, why should they care about an open source clone with no users? That’s the worst argument ever.

You’re just assuming the alternatives will have no users. That’s the worst argument ever.

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Re:Mastodon Is Better Than Twitter: Elevator Pitch by WilliamEdward on Saturday August 18, 2018 @10:22PM (#17792184)
It's actually in Mastodon's best interest not to attract users since users will rip apart their kind, loving, and neat little community limb from limb.
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