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Re:Mastodon Is Better Than Twitter: Elevator Pitch by scabarott on Saturday August 18, 2018 @08:36PM (#17791760)
>>It's the standard techie failure to understand average users

You mean like Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Uber, Youtube, Instagram, Snapchat, Shazam, Grubhub, Bell labs, Intel, Xerox Parc, Pixar, Amazon etc, just to name a few (and of course Twitter)? Techies have been doing just fine in the anticipation department.

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Re:Mastodon Is Better Than Twitter: Elevator Pitch by PurpleRamen on Sunday August 19, 2018 @02:38AM (#17792924)
Except those techies fail all the time. But they are big enough that the fails don't matter on the long run.
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