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Re:Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives? by hombre_fatal on Friday January 08, 2021 @11:40PM (#25697104)
No, it’s saying that it’s not enough of an improvement to warrant the gulf of work required to make it compelling to anyone beyond the few people who use it today.

We really need to move beyond this mindset where we think anyone will use an exact replica of an incumbent with some silver bullet tweak nobody actually cares about. It’s like thinking “Twitter but built with Rust” is compelling and getting mad at the sheeple when they couldn’t care less.

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Re:Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives? by jakelazaroff on Friday January 08, 2021 @11:43PM (#25697123)
The second paragraph is lamenting the fact that other instances can refuse to federate with you:

> Especially since Mastodon seems to have (from my limited understanding) a "if you dare to talk to the Bad People you're also a Bad Person and getting dropped" mentality, effectively meaning that you cannot run an instance that is federating with both the mainstream fediverse and anything the mainstream fediverse doesn't like.

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