After the past couple of weeks it turns out the one feature I care most about is that a billionaire can't buy my online home and ruin it – and that's the single feature Mastodon has that nothing else (at least of the same scale) has been able to offer
DECENTRALIZED AI
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Mastodon’s Decentralized Architecture Enables Single-User Instance Independence
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That's a clever thing about how they've built Mastodon: it makes no difference at all to the vast majority of users if one instance became mainstream vs hundreds I'm running my own unique instance with just a single user – me – and all of the features I care about work just fine
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Decentralization prevents billionaire control of social networks
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I ignored Mastodon for years because I didn't think I wanted a decentralized social network Turns out the most important feature for me is that it can't be bought by a narcissistic billionaire on a whim, and that's the one thing that decentralization delivers really well
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LLM LLCs Focus on AI Power, Not Decentralization Like DAOs
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haha, I'm high level familiar with DAOs and I don't think so. LLM LLCs are about AI Power, not about decentralization, transparency, or governance. Actually in many ways opposite of DAOs in a basic execution of the idea.
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Mastodon Scaling with Volunteer Moderators After Twitter Layoffs
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Twitter just laid all those people off! I think having a tiny team of volunteer moderators for servers with just a few thousand users could work OK Seems to have worked out for Mastodon over the past 6 years, and so far it's scaling up well in the face of the massive new growth
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Decentralized AI Through Web3 Agents and AI Nodes
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Blockchain.AGI.Eth Web3 AI Agents X AI Nodes = Decentralized AI Preliminary Presentation: https://
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Takahe: Open Source Decentralized Social Protocol Project
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I'm keeping a close eye on https://
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Lightweight Mastodon-compatible blogging software for static hosting
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I'm really hoping we can get some much more lightweight Mastodon-compatible blogging software working – there are WordPress plugins and suchlike, but something more compatible with static hosting and a bit of serverless function magic would be fantastic
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Running Independent AI Instances On Your Own Domain
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I like that if I lose trust in them or they vanish for some reason I can fire up a new instance on my own domain name and keep on running
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Mastodon’s Safety-First Design Built by Underrepresented Communities
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Mastodon was built by sensible, thoughtful people, many from underrepresented communities who had very clear needs around safety and moderation – they've put a lot of careful work into that, and the community there continues to invest in it I'm optimistic!