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Mastodon’s Decentralized Model: Economics Without Ads or VC Funding

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19 November 2022 8h36

That's the fascinating thing about Mastodon though: sure, having everyone join the same couple of suggested servers would improve the onboarding UX no end… but it would make those services prohibitively expensive to operate – and there are no ads and no VCs funding it

Decentralized Search: Why Mastodon Rejects Centralized Indexing

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19 November 2022 8h28

You can't – and any time someone tries to build a centralized search engine large portions of the Mastodon community politely but firmly ask them not to – it's a cultural thing there I'm working towards being able to search my own stuff plus stuff that's come through my timeline

Decentralized Systems: Avoiding Centralization Risks in AI

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19 November 2022 7h31

The challenge here is that centralized systems will ALWAYS have a usability advantage. The cost of that is that they can be bought, and ruined We gotta put a bit of extra work in if we want to avoid that happening to us again in the future

Twitter centralization risks revealed by platform dependency irony

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19 November 2022 6h53

Twitter worked well enough for me that the benefits of federation always felt more ideological and theoretical than practical to me I mean, how much could possibly go wrong with a well established public company?

Federated networks offer true ownership against billionaire control

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19 November 2022 6h41

I resisted the federated thing for SO long, but now I'm there it feels really natural, to the point that I have trouble imagining myself being tempted away by something that DIDN'T give me that ownership of my own destiny I don't want my space to be bought by another billionaire

Mastodon API Hackability Versus Twitter’s Restrictive Approach

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19 November 2022 6h37

I'm finding the hackability of the Mastodon ecosystem _extremely_ beguiling – Twitter's API increasingly felt like I'd get in trouble if I did anything particularly interesting with it

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AGI-FIRST Limited Edition Mouse Pad NFT Airdrop Launch

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19 November 2022 1h09

AGI-FIRST Preliminary Merch Limited Edition AGI-FIRST Mouse Pad + Proof of Use = AGI-FIRST Mouse Pad Airdropped Limited Edition NFT Coming in a few weeks on https://
quebecartificialintelligence.com #AGI #AGIFirst #MontrealAI

Decentralized Networks Worth Their Infrastructure Costs

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19 November 2022 0h38

Generally though there are definite costs involved in having a network that someone like Elon can't ruin I've decided that I can tolerate them

Mastodon’s Decentralization Protects Users From Billionaire Control

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19 November 2022 0h33

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