Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

Re:Promotion of alternative social platforms policy by jacquesm on Sunday December 18, 2022 @01:41PM (#34041083)

That's true.

The only proper way that I can see to join Mastodon is to have your own personal instance. And maybe that's how social media should be, but then the difference between that and a webserver with an RSS feed is getting quite small.

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Re:Promotion of alternative social platforms policy by jrmg on Sunday December 18, 2022 @03:36PM (#34042965)

The user experience is quite different though?

And I think there’s value in decentralization even without the granularity of a server-per-person. Sure, some Mastodon servers might go down, or some admins might do unwise things, but damage should be limited. the entire network - I hope - would not fail.

Of course, I’ve lived through the death of Usenet, so perhaps I should not be so optimistic :-/

Edit: not to mention the arguable centralization of email, blogging, and perhaps soon podcasting :-(

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