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Mastodon’s founder cedes control, refuses to become next Musk or Zuckerberg (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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His grand vision remains to leave Mastodon users in control of the social network, making their own decisions about what content is allowed or what appears in their timelines.

I don't use Mastadon cause I don't care for micro-blogging, but nevertheless, I like this.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Yes, it’s not a full web3 app, but I like that these apps are heading in the right direction.

However it's better than Twitter/Instagram. I can control my feed!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Twitter also looked great until it didn't, it even comes from the same guy.

While at this moment BlueSky looks good, we will end up the same way sooner or later. Muskov et. al. figured out how to monetize social media. Now Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and others are tools to manufacture opinion. And certain opinions are worth a lot to certain people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Reddit was open source at some point too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

it even comes from the same guy

The seed money came from Twitter, allocated by Jack Dorsey and he had a position on the board that he didn't really make use of. He literally left because he is against centralised moderation and didn't have enough influence to prevent bsky implementing it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Until they build "The Algorithm" to "help you" find what ~~you~~ they want you to see or not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Feeds offer algorithm transparency and you can use alternative frontends. ATProto can't suddenly be turned to private and disable third party access, it is intrinsically public.